August Gustaw Dehnel s. Michała (June 25, 1903, in Warsaw – November 22, 1962, in Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist, Ph.D. (1926), professor. Until 1949 he signed his popular science and embryology works with the name Gustaw Dehnel. Dehnel was born in Warsaw, the son of Maria née Sliwicka and physician Michael Dehnel. After school he was conscripted and served in Upper Silesia for which he received a medal of valour. He became a student of Jan Korczak Tur in the Institute of Comparative Anatomy from 1922. He obtained his doctorate in 1926 and became a senior assistant. He took an interest in tera
August Gustaw Dehnel s. Michała (June 25, 1903, in Warsaw – November 22, 1962, in Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist, Ph.D. (1926), professor. Until 1949 he signed his popular science and embryology works with the name Gustaw Dehnel. Dehnel was born in Warsaw, the son of Maria née Sliwicka and physician Michael Dehnel. After school he was conscripted and served in Upper Silesia for which he received a medal of valour. He became a student of Jan Korczak Tur in the Institute of Comparative Anatomy from 1922. He obtained his doctorate in 1926 and became a senior assistant. He took an interest in teratological monstrosities in Emys orbicularis and later studied avian embryology. Along with Tur, they examined experimental approaches to embryonic development in fowl eggs and discovered that growth and development was highly regulated. In 1935 he left work at Warsaw University and began to study the mammal fauna of Poland at the State Zoological Museum. He also worked on the management of beaver habitats. During World War II he was conscripted and taken prisoner by the Germans. He gave biology lectures at the prisoner-of-war camp in Grosborn. He returned to the Museum in May 1946 and a year…
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Books
1960: "Maleńki ssak o dużej przyszłości" (popular science, about shrews)
1949: "Zamki na wodzie" (popular science, about beavers)
1947: "Najpospolitsze gryzonie i ich zwalczanie" ("Cost Common Rodents and the Fight against Them") (with E. Kaminski)
1939: "O sztuce układania ptaków drapieżnych do łowów" ("About the Art of Upbringing of Birds of Prey for Hunting")
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Decorations
1920: Cross of Valour, for the participation in the Polish-Soviet War (1918-1920)
1950: State Award of the Polish People's Republic of III degree
1954: Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
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1954: Golden Cross of Merit (Poland)
1954: Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland
