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441:(or Warsaw Courier). He also gave a series of lectures. His publications include: Fernando Po (Paris, 1886); Memories of Expedition of Szolca- Rogoziński to Cameroon in 1882; Seizure of Cameroon by the Germans (Morze, 1931); In the African Jungle, memories of the Polish expedition in Africa in the years 1882-1890 (Warsaw 1936)
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wounding and arresting
Janikowski on the open sea, travelling by canoe from Batoki to Victoria, in the belief that they had got hold of Rogoziński. At about this time the Swedes Knutson and Waldau were officially authorized by Captain Karcher to arrest 'S.S. Rogozinski and hand him over to the German
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on
Fernando Po, studied and later wrote about their habits, law and history and lived in the vicinity of the tribe. For example, the Polish expeditionary Janikowski (1887) is described by Moreno in 2013 as one who provided the most precise information on the political chiefdoms and on Bubi military
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First the travellers went to London and Paris. There began their activity in lecture halls and the popular press. Leopold
Janikowski was a member of the French Geographical Society and published in their magazine. Then the expedition returned to Poland, and the harvest collected in Africa became the
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Rogoziński and
Janikowski made a short three-week trip to Gabon, collecting anthropological and ethnographic material, returning on 14 July 1884 to find German naval vessels had arrived in Cameroon waters and that, to their dismay, a German protectorate had been declared over the Cameroon river area
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Janikowski's collection of 1300 items from the
Cameroons were on display in his Ethnographic Exhibition. In 1902 it was donated to the Museum of Industry and Agriculture in Warsaw, on Kraków Street (66 Krakowskie Przedmieście). Ethnologia Polonia described these as “the most valuable” items bought
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in the 18th century - had resulted in the elimination of the sovereign state of Poland. Hence Rogoziński served in the
Russian Navy. Rogoziński's diary, according to Baginsky, confirms “his real intention … to create a second Free Fatherland for emigrants from his oppressed country”. Janikowski
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September 1939, as a result of the bombing and fire, the building of the Museum of Industry and Agriculture at 66 Krakowskie Przedmieście was completely destroyed. The few remaining objects disappeared in the subsequent years of the war. On the whole, there is virtually nothing left of the
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took them four months, but soon after arriving on
Fernando Po on 16 April 1883 the three companions acquired the island of Mondoleh near Cameroon for their scientific station. Possibly this was among land 'bought' from the Wovca people for £55 (see Ardener, S.G. 1968: 69).
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He attended high school in Kalisz. After moving to Warsaw, he worked for a long time at the Warsaw
Astronomical Observatory in the department of meteorology. The Oxford companion to world exploration refers to Leopold Janikowski as a “well educated scientist”.
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Authorities'. According to Rear-Admiral Knorr, the senior German officer in the area: "As M. Janikowski and his boat's crew were fired upon and their lives imperilled by a mistake, they are evidently entitled to demand a just and reasonable compensation."
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organization at that moment. The 1920 Peace handbooks issued by the historical section of the
Foreign office XX, Spanish and Italian possessions, H.M. Majesty's Stationery Office, 1920 referred to Janikowski's article on Fernando Po.
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Bubi Government at the End of the 19th Century: Resistance to the Colonial Policy of Evangelization on the Island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea By Nuria Fernández Moreno in Nordic Journal of African Studies 22(1&2): 23–48 (2013)
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of 100 tons with a French crew flying the French flag and the Polish colours of the Warsaw Syrena (coat of arms of the city of Warsaw). They sheltered from a storm for a few days in the English port of
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In the war years, Janikowski and his wife lived in Zielonka where they hid Jews in a cellar under the kitchen. He died in Zielonka on 8 December 1942 and is buried in Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw.
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This first documented Polish research expedition to Africa took place between 1882 and 1885, and was conducted by Stefan Szolc-Rogozinski, Leopold Janikowski and Klemens Tomczek. They visited
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ale i duchowo było za ciasno pod rządami trzech naszych zaborców, — plan ten porwał mnie, i oddałem mu się całą duszą. Losy jednak, przeciwnie, nie pozwoliły nam tego planu przeprowadzić.
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a 20-year-old naval officer of the Russian Navy, looking for companions to accompany him on a planned trip. The Polish expedition was organised to establish a geographical station in
310:(Cameroon), the British were assisted by the two Polish nationals, Stefan Szolc Rogozinski and Leopold Janikowski, who signed more than thirty-five treaties with local leaders.
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In December 1889 he returned to Warsaw (due to annexation of the Cameroons by troops of the German Navy). On the second expedition, he brought back 1300 different exhibits.
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Janikowski wrote memoirs of his travels that were published in several geographical magazines including Paris. He sent letters of correspondence to his homeland, mainly to
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In early 1887 Leopold Janikowski travelled for the second time to Africa, this time to settle in the vicinity of the Crystal Heights in the middle of the Mpangue tribe.
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715:] (in Polish) (1936 ed.). Warsaw, Poland: Wydawnictwo Ligi Morskiej I Kolonjalnej; Skład Główny: Instytut Wydawn. Bibljoteka Polska S. A.
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Leopold Janikowski was concerned at this time mainly with the construction of the camp for the expedition on the Isle de Mondoleh. He met local
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in December 1884. They were the first Poles and only the third European expedition to the top (after Burton in 1860 and Comber in 1878).
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From 1900 to 1932 Janikowski was deputy director, later Director and finally administrative director of the Museum.
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769:(1/2) (Vol. 103, No. 1/2, (Jan. - Feb., 1944) ed.). The Royal Geographical Society: 72–75.
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Janikowski, together with Rogoziński and the German reporter Zöller, climbed to the peak of the
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Leopold Ludwik Janikowski was born on 14 November 1855 in Dąbrówka, now part of
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and Bimbia. This resulted on 12 February in the German corvette
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and to penetrate the interior in search of Lake Liba or Riba”.
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La Isla de Fernando Póo, su estado actual y sus habitantes
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Piłaszewicz and Rzewuski, Stanisław and Eugeniusz (2004).
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