Hugo Zapałowicz | |
Birth Date: | 15 November 1852 |
Birth Place: | Laibach, Austrian Empire |
Death Place: | Perovsk [now Kyzylorda], Russian Empire (Modern day Kazakhstan |
Nationality: | Slovenian |
Fields: | Botany |
Hugo Zapałowicz (15 November 1852, in Ljubljana – 20 November 1917, in Perovsk [now [[Kyzylorda]]], Kazakhstan) was a botanist,[1] natural scientist, traveller, and military lawyer.
Zapałowicz was a pioneer researcher of flora and geological structure of the Carpathian Mountains. He was also a geological, geographical, and flora researcher of South America and author of works about flora of Babia Góra-Babia Hora, Maramureş Mountains, Pokuttya.
In 1894 he became a member of the Academy of Learning.