Stanislaw Tołpa (3 November 1901, Ruda Łańcucka – 11 October 1996, Wrocław) was a Polish professor of botany. He has developed a method of peat preparation called by his name. Tołpa, born into a poor peasant family in eastern Poland, graduated theologian, then studied mathematics and natural sciences at Lwów University where he completed a doctorate on peatlands in Chornohora. He worked as a biology teacher in a high school in Kalisz until 1939. In 1945 he went to Wrocław. Initially, he was dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at Wroclaw University and Wroclaw University of Technology. Later he