RYBCZYŃSKI

POLAND (see also List of Individuals)

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20.11.1873 Stanisławów/PL - 23.1.1937 Warszawa/PL

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Mieczysław Szczesny Rybczyński graduated with honours from the Technical School in Lemberg, today's Lwów, in 1897; subsequently he became assistant there. From 1899 until the end of 1918 he worked at the Water Engineering Direction. In 1912 he was appointed head of the Hydrographical Office at the Galicia Hydrographical Service. From 1919 Rybczyński devoted in Warsaw his efforts to the organization of the technical service of Poland, as deputy minister and subsequently minister of public works. From 1924 he taught hydrology and river engineering at the Warsaw Technical University, and there was appointed professor at the Chair of hydraulic engineering in 1926. He set up a hydraulic laboratory shortly later. In 1929 Rybczyński organized the first Polish Hydrotechnical Conference and founded the Polish Association of Water Management. In recognition of these achievements, he was appointed Member of the Polish Academy of Technical Sciences.

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Rybczyński was active in the Polish Energy Committee and acted as the chairman of its Water Commission. As the head of the hydraulic laboratory, he initiated research Roz on dams in Porabka and  nów. The first Polish journal devoted to water related issues, the Gospodarka Wodna or the Water Management, was also founded by Rybczyński. His greatest achievement, however, was the initiative to publish the monograph “Hydrology”, by using a fresh approach to hydrology as a branch of geophysics. The initiative was undertaken jointly with Karol Pomianowski (1874-1937) and Kazimierz Wóycicki (1898-1944). Three volumes were published from 1933 to 1939, whereas the fourth volume followed in 1947 after World War II.

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_{Mikulski, Z. (2000). Mieczysław Rybczyński. Gospodarka Wodna 60(3): 8-9 (in Polish). P}

_{Pomianowski, K., Rybczyński, M., Wóycicki, K. (1933-1939). Hydrology. Komisja Wydawnicza Towarzystwa Bratniej Pomocy Studentów Politechniki: Warsaw (in Polish).}

_{Rybczyński, M. (1933). Hydraulic Laboratory of the Warsaw Technical University. Report for the years 1931-32. Technical University: Warsaw (in Polish).}

_{Rybczyński, M. (1933). Beitrag zur Bestimmung der charakteristischen Wasserstände. 4th Hydrologische Konferenz der Baltischen Staaten Leningrad. Rybczyński M. (1936). Overflow and destruction of energy in the Porabka Reservoir. Gospodarka Wodna 2(6): 237-242 (in Polish).}

_{Rybczyński, M. (1936). Water power in Poland. Polish Energy Committee: Warsaw (in Polish).}