Paczoski, Józef

Paczoski, Józef, b 8 December 1864 in Bilohorodka, Iziaslav county, Volhynia gubernia, d 14 February 1942 near Poznań, Poland. Botanist of Polish descent. After studying and working as a laboratory assistant at Kyiv University (1888–94) he was director of the Kherson Museum of Natural History (1897–1920; see Kherson Regional Studies Museum) and a professor at the Kherson Polytechnical Institute (1918–22). He worked as an associate of the Askaniia-Nova Nature Reserve (1922–3) and then became a professor at Poznań University (1925). A specialist in the flora and fauna of Ukraine (particularly Polisia and the steppe regions of Southern Ukraine) and eastern Poland, he wrote Flora Poles'ia i prilezhashchikh mestnostei (The Flora of Polisia and Its Adjacent Areas, 3 parts, 1897–1900) and Opisanie rastitel'nosti Khersonskoi gubernii (A Description of the Vegetation of Kherson gubernia, 3 parts, 1915–27), and, in Ukrainian, Osnovy fitosotsiologii (Fundamentals of Phytosociology, 1921).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]