Bohdan Dobrzański

Bohdan Dobrzański (3 March 1909 – 15 July 1987) was a Polish soil scientist, agrophysicist, agronomist, academic, and professor at several Warsaw- and Lublin-based universities. As the Rector of the Lublin Higher School of Agriculture, he led the formation of the first Chair of Soil Science in Poland. Dobrzański was a pioneer of agrophysics in Poland, a founder and long-time director of the Institute of Agrophysics in Lublin, and the Polish Journal of Soil Science. He is a co-author of the official Table of Land Classes and criteria for valorisation of agricultural production areas. He was awarded a number of prizes and medals including The Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Life and education Bohdan Dobrzański was born in Strutynka , a village currently in Podilsk Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. He was the son of Stanisław Dobrzański and Zofia née Mianowska. His father was a property administrator. In 1922, he moved to Poland and settled in Puławy with his mother. His father died of typhus during the move.