BEEKEEPING HISTORY: Dzierzon's contributions to beekeeping

摘要

Jan Dzierzon was born on the 16th January 1811 in the village of Lowkowitz (Lowkowice), near Kreuzburg (Kluczbork), where his parents owned a small farm. He graduated at Breslau (Wroclaw) University Faculty of Catholic Theology in 1833 and became a chaplain in Schalkowitz (Siolkowice). Happily for beekeeping science, Dzierzon was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1835 and took over a very small parish in Karlowitz (Karlowice) with about 70 parishoners, where he lived for 49 years. From this point on he had a lot of free time - time enough anyway for him to conduct scientific research on the life of bees. In 1869, he retired from the priesthood and in 1884 he moved back to Lowkowice where he died on the 26th October 1906. He was buried in nearby Kluczbork graveyard.