Piotr Sławiński

Piotr Sławinski (Lithuanian: Petras Slavinskis; 29 June 1795 – 30 May 1881) was a Polish In 1815 Sławinski defended his master's degree, and was appointed as a student assistant of the Vilnius University Astronomical Observatory. Two years later, in 1817, he gained his doctoral degree for his work on eclipses. Johann Elert Bode, and Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers. Sławinski was invited to a celebration for the start of work on the new William Herschel telescopes. Honored guests like Sławinski signed on the telescope stand, and the signatures were later engraved. Sławinski and others calculated the triangulation web of the Russian Empire in Lithuania and Courland. In 1825, Śniadecki retired, and Sławinski became the director of the university's observatory. Shortly after writing a textbook on the theoretical and practical rudiments of astronomy (Początki Astronomii Teoretyczney i Praktyczney) in 1826, Sławinski also was made a member-correspondent of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Palermo Academy of Science and Literature, as well as an honorary member of Imperial Kharkiv University.

Remembrance His gravestone was restored in 2017 after a successful financial appeal by a Polish radio station. He was described as a "well-deserved professor of astronomy". At the 150th jubilee of the Royal Astronomical Society, Sławinski's surviving textbook on astronomy with his signature, and a medal of Nicolaus Copernicus he gifted to the society, was exhibited.