Friedrich Grabowsky

Friedrich Johann Grabowski, also spelled as Fryderyk Grabowski and Grabowsky, (27 January 1857 – 20 January 1929) was a German biologist and speleologist, director of the Wrocław Zoo between 18 March 1901 and 20 January 1929 (with an interruption from 1921 to 1927).

He undertook two major naturalist expeditions: in 1880 to India, Ceylon and Borneo, and in 1886–1887 to New Guinea. In addition to collecting specimens, he also carried out ethnological observations. His main research field was botany, but he also conducted zoological studies, including ornithological work.

Taxa named after Grabowski Solanaceae: Grabowskia ameghinoi Speg. – Nov. Add. Fl. Patag. ii. (1902), repr. 48. Solanaceae: Grabowskia boerhaaviaefolia Kuntze – Revis. Gen. Pl. 3, pt. 2: 221. 1898 Solanaceae: Grabowskia geniculata C.L.Hitchc. – Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 19: 331. 1932 Solanaceae: Grabowskia glauca I.M.Johnst. – Contr. Gray Herb. 85: 112. 1929 Solanaceae: Grabowskia megalosperma Speg. – Nov. Add. Fl. Patag. ii. (1902), repr. 46. Solanaceae: Grabowskia schizocalyx Dammer – Meded. Rijks-Herb. 29: 22. 1916 Solanaceae: Grabowskia sodiroi Bitter – Abh. Naturwiss. Vereine Bremen 23: 120. 1914 Solanaceae: Grabowskia spegazzinii Dusén – Ark. Bot. 7, no. 2: 33, pl. 4, 8. 1907 Araceae: Cryptocoryne grabowskii Engl. – in Engl. Jahrb. xxv. 28. Araceae: Homalomena grabowskii Engl. – in Engl. Pflanzenreich, Arac. Homalomen.-Schismatoglott. 45 (1912). Araceae: Piptospatha grabowskii Engl. – in Engl. Pflanzenreich, Arac. Homalomen.-Schismatoglott. 125 (1912). Araceae: Rhynchopyle grabowskii Engl. – in Engl. Jahrb. xxv. 20. Araceae: Schismatoglottis grabowskii Engl. – in Engl. Pflanzenreich, Arac. Homalomen.-Schismatoglott. 121 (1912).

Calamaria grabowskyi.