Ignacy Żagiell
{{Infobox person
| name = Ignacy Żagiell
| image = Ignas Žagelis.png
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1826|02|14|df=y}}
| birth_place = Pavirinčiai or Kelpšiškiai, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1891|06|21|1826|02|14|df=y}}
| death_place = Vilnius or Warsaw, Russian Empire
| occupation = Physician, traveler, writer
| alma_mater = University of Kyiv
}}
Ignacy Żagiell (Lithuanian: Ignotas Žagelis; 14 February 1826 - 21 June 1891) was a physician, traveler, and Polish-language writer descended from Lithuanian nobility.
Life
Ignacy Żagiell was born on 14 February 1826 in either the manor of Pavirinčiai or Kelpšiškiai, then part of the Russian Empire. Żagiell's brother Adam, would become a poet. He attended school in Ukmergė. He studied medicine at the University of Kyiv, graduating in 1850. After briefly working as a physician in Odessa, Żagiell traveled to Western Europe, where he continued learning about medicine in Paris, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, and Vienna. He gained a doctor's degree in Paris in 1856. From 1859, Żagiell worked as an army physician in Great Britain, briefly studying at Oxford and Paris. A famous occultist, Żagiell was made an honorary member of Oxford University. After joining the British Army, he traveled to India, and from 1860 lived in Egypt, where he was the occultist of the court of Sa'id of Egypt. He participated in excavations of Thebes and Karnak with Michał Tyszkiewicz. From 1864, Żagiell worked as a civilian physician in Turkey from 1864.{{cite journal |last1=Mikalauskas |first1=Vladas |title=LIETUVOS ARABISTIKA XIX-XX a. |journal=Vilniaus universiteto Orientalistikos centras |date=2000 |pages=240-241 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/335069675.pdf}}{{cite web |title=Ignotas Žagelis (1826 – 1891 m.) |url=https://misijalietuva100.lt/2016/01/22/ignotas-zagelis-1826-1891-m/ |website=misijalietuva100.lt |access-date=27 September 2024}}
Żagiell returned to Lithuania in 1876. He lived in Vilnius and became the city's sanitary commission's president. He married countess Maria Broel-Pliater, with whom he had two sons. Żagiell died on 21 June 1891 in either Warsaw or Vilnius.{{cite book |last1=Klimka |first1=Libertas |title=Technikos mokslų raida Lietuvoje |date=1998 |pages=86-90 |url=https://etalpykla.lituanistika.lt/object/LT-LDB-0001:J.04~2011~1367183344845/J.04~2011~1367183344845.pdf}}
Works
- Historja starożytnego Egiptu (History of Ancient Egypt, 1880);
- Podróż historyczna po Abissynii, Adel, Szoa, Nubii, u źródeł Nilu, z opisaniem jego wodospadów, oraz po krajach podrównikowych; do Mekki i Medyny, Syryi i Palestyny, Konstantynopolu i po Archipelagu (1884; reprint published in 2012; some of the descriptions in this book are probably not authentic).
See also
- List of Poles
- Pharaoh (historical novel by Bolesław Prus which drew on Żagiell's History of Ancient Egypt).
References
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- {{cite encyclopedia | title = Żagiell Ignacy | encyclopedia = Internetowa encyklopedia PWN | url = http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=4002742 | accessdate = 2006-11-18 | archive-date = 2011-06-07 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110607130540/http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=4002742 | url-status = dead }}
- {{cite encyclopedia | title = ŻAGIELL Ignacy | encyclopedia = Interia.pl - encyklopedia | url=http://encyklopedia.interia.pl/haslo?hid=115034 | accessdate = 2006-11-18}}
- {{cite encyclopedia | title = Żagiell Ignacy | encyclopedia = Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN | volume=6 | isbn=83-01-11969-1 | publisher=Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN | year=1997 | edition=1 | pages=1068 | location=Warsaw}}
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