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'''Ignacy Domeyko''' or '''Domejko''', pseudonym: ''Żegota'' ({{langx|es|Ignacio Domeyko}}, {{IPA|es|iɣˈnasjo ðoˈmejko}}; 31 July 1802 – 23 January 1889) was a ]<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hutchison |editor1-first=Elizabeth Quay |editor2-last=Klubock |editor2-first=Thomas Miller |title=The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics |date=2014 |publisher=] |page=157 |chapter=A Polish scientist among the Mapuche, Ignacio Domeyko|isbn= 978-0822353607}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Moreno |editor1-first=Teresa |editor2-last=Gibbons |editor2-first=Wes |title=The Geology of Chile |date=2007 |publisher=] |page=340|isbn= 978-1862392205}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Collier |first1=Simon |last2=Sater |first2=William F. |title=A History of Chile, 1808-2002 |url=https://archive.org/details/historychile00coll |url-access=limited |date=2004 |publisher=] |page=|isbn= 978-0521534840}}</ref> ], ], educator, and founder of the ], in ]. Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his adopted country, Chile.


After a youth passed in ], Domeyko participated in the ]. Upon Russian victory, he was exiled, spending part of his life in France (where he had gone with a fellow ], Polish poet ]) before eventually settling in ], whose ] he became.
'''Ignacy Domeyko''' or '''Domejko''' ({{lang-es|Ignacio Domeyko}}, {{lang-be|Ігнат Дамейка}}, {{lang-lt|Ignotas Domeika}}; ], ] – ], ], ]) was a 19th-century ] ], ] and ]. He was born in ], ] (present-day ]) into a ] family and spent most of his life and died in his adopted country of ].


After a youth spent in ] Polish-Lithuanian lands, he participated in the ] against the ]. Upon its suppression, he was forced into exile. He spent part of his life in ] and eventually settled in ], of which he became a ] and where he lived for some 50 years. Domeyko made major contributions to the study of Chilean ], ] and ] and his commentary on the condition of impoverished ] and their wealthy ] had a profound influence on those that would go on to shape the ] in ]. He lived some 50 years in Chile and made major contributions to the study of that country's ], ] and ]. His observations on the circumstances of poverty-stricken ] and of their wealthy ] had a profound influence on those who would go on to shape ]'s ].


He is seen as having close ties with several countries and thus in 2002, when ] organized a series of commemorative events, he was referred to as a "citizen of the world".<ref name="msz">, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2002</ref><ref>Algimantas Grigelis' preface to the book "Ignotas Domeika/Ignacy Domeyko 1802 - 1889, Ignacy Domeyko - A Citizen of the World - scroll down for English translation</ref> Domeyko is seen as having had close ties to several countries and thus in 2002, when ] organized a series of commemorations of the 200th anniversary of his birth, he was referred to as "a citizen of the world".<ref name="msz">, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2002</ref><ref>Algimantas Grigelis' preface to the book "Ignotas Domeika/Ignacy Domeyko 1802 - 1889, Ignacy Domeyko - A Citizen of the World {{dead link|date=November 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} - scroll down for English translation</ref>


==Life== ==Life==
=== Early life ===
]'', ], with plaque commemorating Domeyko]]
]'', ], with plaque (''opposite'') commemorating Domeyko]]
] and eminent citizen of ]"]]
] and eminent citizen of ]"]]
Domeyko was born in ] of the former ], at Niedźwiadka ({{lang-be|''Мядзьведка''}} — Miadzviedka) Manor (Bear Cub Manor), near Nieśwież (]), Nowogródek (]) district, ], ] (now ] district, ]).


Ignacy Domeyko was born in the then ] of the former ], at ] ({{langx|be|Мядзьведка|translit=Miadzviedka}}) Manor (Bear Cub Manor) near ], ], ] (now ] district, ]). The Domeyko family held the Polish ] ]. Ignacy's father, Hipolit Domeyko, who was president of the local land court ({{langx|pl|sąd ziemski}}), died when Ignacy was seven years old; the boy's uncles then served as his guardians.<ref name=blgov>{{cite web|title=Ignaсy Domeyko|url=http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=734159|access-date=2009-09-02|publisher=Government of ]|archive-date=2011-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706163123/http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=734159|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In his youth he was a subject of the ]. Domeyko had, however, been brought up in the culture of the ], a ] entity whose educated and dominant classes had spoken Polish as a '']'' and that, shortly before Domeyko's birth, had been dismembered in the ]. For this reason, and because Domeyko subsequently spent most of his life in ], he is considered a person of national importance to ], ], and ]; along with ].


In his youth Ignacy was a subject of the ]. He had, however, been brought up in the culture of the ], a multicultural state whose educated and dominant classes had spoken Polish as a '']''. Shortly before Domeyko's birth, the Commonwealth had been dismembered in the ]. For this reason, and because Domeyko subsequently spent most of his life in ], he is considered a person of national importance to ], ],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://csl.bas-net.by/resursy/belscientists/domejko_ignatij_ippolitovich.asp | title=Домейко Игнатий Ипполитович }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archives.gov.by/home/tematicheskie-razrabotki-arhivnyh-dokumentov-i-bazy-dannyh/vydayushhiesya-lichnosti/ignatij-domejko/obzornaya-spravka | title=Обзорная справка &#124; Архивы Беларуси }}</ref> ],{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}} and ].
Domeyko studied at the ] under ]. Involved with the ], a secret student organization dedicated to Polish culture and the restoration of Poland's independence, he was a close friend of ]. In 1823–24, during the investigation and trials of the Philomaths, Domeyko and Mickiewicz spent months incarcerated at Vilnius' Uniate Basilian monastery.
]' ] ] ], where Domeyko was jailed in 1823–24]]
After participating in the ], in which Domeyko served as an officer under General ], in 1831 Domeyko was forced into ] in order not to face ]n reprisals. Journeying through Germany, he arrived in France, where he would earn an engineering degree at ]' '']'' (School of Mining).
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Domeyko enrolled at ], then known as the Imperial University of Vilna, in 1816 as a student of mathematics and physics.<ref name=blgov/> He studied under ]. Involved with the ], a secret student organisation dedicated to Polish culture and the restoration of Poland's independence, he was a close friend of ]. In 1823–24, during the investigation and trials of the Philomaths, Domeyko and Mickiewicz spent months incarcerated at Vilnius' Uniate Basilian monastery.
In 1838 he left for ]. On becoming a Chilean citizen in 1849, he declared: "I may now never change my citizenship, but God grants me hope that wherever I may be—whether in the ]s or in ] suburb of] ]—I shall die a Lithuanian."<ref name=UNESCO>UNESCO. . Retrieved on 2008-07-24</ref><ref>{{lt icon}} {{cite web|url=http://www.president.lt/lt/news.full/9433|publisher=President of the ]|title=Lietuvos Respublikos Prezidento Valdo Adamkaus kalba atidengiant paminklinę lentą Ignotui Domeikai|accessdate=2009-01-27|quote=...ar Kordiljeruose mirsiu, ar Paneriuose - mirsiu lietuviu...}}</ref>


After participating in the ], in which Domeyko served as an officer under General ], in 1831 Domeyko was forced into ] in order not to face ]n reprisals.
Domeyko lived in Chile until ], ], when he returned for an extended visit to ]. He remained for four years in partitioned Poland—receiving an honorary doctorate from the ] in the ] sector of Poland, and touring Europe—then returned to Chile.


=== Exile ===
During his career, Domeyko made substantial contributions to ] and the technology of ], studied several previously unknown ], advocated for the ] of the native tribal peoples, and was a ] and ].
Journeying through Germany, he arrived in France, where he would earn an engineering degree at Paris' '']'' (School of Mining). He also studied at the ] and maintained his political engagements with Belarusians, Poles, and Lithuanians.<ref name=blgov/>


==== Chile ====
He served as a professor at a mining college in ] (]) and later at the ] (''Universidad de Chile''), of which he was ] for 16 years (1867-83).
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In 1838 Domeyko left for ]. There he made substantial contributions to ] and the technology of mining, studied several previously unknown ], advocated for the ] of the native tribal peoples, and was a ] and ]. He is also credited with introducing the ] to Latin America.<ref name=blgov/>

He served as a professor at a mining college in ] (]) and after 1847 at the ] (''Universidad de Chile'', in ]), of which he was ] for 16 years (1867–83).<ref name=blgov/>
Domeyko gained Chilean citizenship in 1849, but declared at the time that "I may now never change my citizenship, but God grants me hope that wherever I may be—whether in the ]s or in ] suburb of] ]—I shall die a Lithuanian."<ref name=UNESCO>UNESCO. . Retrieved on 2008-07-24 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619052435/http://www.unesco.lt/domeika/biografija/#2 |date=June 19, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.president.lt/lt/news.full/9433 |publisher=President of the ] |title=Lietuvos Respublikos Prezidento Valdo Adamkaus kalba atidengiant paminklinę lentą Ignotui Domeikai |access-date=2009-01-27 |quote=...ar Kordiljeruose mirsiu, ar Paneriuose - mirsiu lietuviu... |language=lt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218012246/http://www.president.lt/lt/news.full/9433 |archive-date=December 18, 2008 }}</ref> The term "Lithuanian" at that time designated any inhabitant, whatever his ethnicity, of the territories of the former ].

In 1884 Domeyko returned for an extended visit to Europe and remained there until 1889, visiting his birthplace and other places in the former Commonwealth, as well as Paris and Jerusalem.<ref name=blgov/>

In 1887 he was awarded an ] by the ], in ].<ref name=blgov/>

In 1889, soon after returning to Santiago, Chile, Domeyko died.<ref name=blgov/>


==Memorials== ==Memorials==
] ]]]
Named in honour of Domeyko are:
Named for Domeyko are the mineral '']'', the shellfish '']'', the genus '']'', the ammonite '']'', ] '']'', the '']'' mountain range in the ], and the ]an town of '']''.


* the plant genus ''],'' whose species range from Peru to Chile,<ref>{{cite book | last=Quattrocchi | first=Umberto | title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L | publisher=CRC Press | location=Boca Raton, Florida | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8493-2676-9}}</ref>
A bronze bust of Domeyko stands in the ''Casa Central'' of ] ], of which Domeyko was a long-time ].
* the mineral '']'',
* the shellfish '']'',
* the dinosaur genus '']'',
* the ammonite '']'',
* the ] '']'',
* the '']'' mountain range in the ], and
* the ]an town of '']''.


A bronze bust of Domeyko stands in the ], of which Domeyko was long-time ].
In 1992, a plaque in ] and ] was placed on a building at '']'', in ], ], commemorating Ignacy Domeyko / Ignacio Domeyko, "distinguished son of the Polish nation and eminent citizen of Chile."


In 1992, a plaque in Spanish and ] was placed on a building at '']'', in ], Poland, commemorating the "distinguished son of the Polish nation and eminent citizen of Chile."
On the 200th anniversary of his birth, ] declared 2002 to be "Ignacy Domeyko Year."<ref name="msz"/> Several commemorative events were held in Chile under the auspices of Polish President ] and Chilean President ].

On the 200th anniversary of his birth, ] declared 2002 to be "Ignacy Domeyko Year."<ref name="msz"/> Several commemorative events were held in Chile under the auspices of Polish President ] and Chilean President ].


In 2002, Poland and Chile jointly issued a ] commemorating the 200th anniversary of Domeyko's birth. In 2002, Poland and Chile jointly issued a ] commemorating the 200th anniversary of Domeyko's birth.


Also in 2002, a 200th-birthday plaque honoring him was placed in the entry gate to Vilnius' ] ], where he and ] were held in 1823–24 during the investigation and trials of the ]. Also in 2002, a 200th-birthday plaque honoring him was placed in the entry gate to ] ] in ], Lithuania, where he and ] were held in 1823–24 during the investigation and trials of the ].

In 2015 a ]ian climber Pavel Gorbunov placed a memorial plate on the top of Cerro Kimal in ].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.belaruspartisan.org/life/293857/ | title=В чилийских Кордильерах почтили память Игната Домейко | publisher=Belarus Partizan | date=2015-02-02 | access-date=2015-02-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702023859/http://www.belaruspartisan.org/life/293857/ | archive-date=2015-07-02 | url-status=dead }}</ref>


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* {{cite book | author=Ignacy Domeyko | title=Moje podróże: pamiętniki wygnańca (''My Travels: Memoirs of an Exile'') | publisher=]: ] | year=1962 | id= }} Polish language * {{cite book | author=Ignacy Domeyko | title=Moje podróże: pamiętniki wygnańca (''My Travels: Memoirs of an Exile'') | publisher=]: ] | year=1962 }} Polish language
* {{cite book | author=Zbigniew Wójcik | title=Ignacy Domeyko: Litwa, Francja, Chile (''Ignacy Domeyko: Lithuania, France, Chile'') | publisher=], Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze | year=1995 | isbn=83-904914-2-7}} Polish language * {{cite book | author=Zbigniew Wójcik | title=Ignacy Domeyko: Litwa, Francja, Chile (''Ignacy Domeyko: Lithuania, France, Chile'') | publisher=], Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze | year=1995 | isbn=83-904914-2-7}} Polish language
* {{cite book | author=Małgorzata Kośka | title=Ignacy Domeyko | publisher=Warsaw, "DiG" | year=1998 | isbn=83-7181-062-8}} Polish language * {{cite book | author=Małgorzata Kośka | title=Ignacy Domeyko | publisher=Warsaw, "DiG" | year=1998 | isbn=83-7181-062-8}} Polish language
* {{cite book | author=Jadwiga Garbowska, Krzysztof Jakubowski| title=Ignacy Domeyko: (1802-1889) | publisher=]-], Towarzystwo Kultury Polskiej Ziemi Lidzkiej | year=1995 | isbn=83-901353-6-1}} Polish language * {{cite book | author=Jadwiga Garbowska, Krzysztof Jakubowski| title=Ignacy Domeyko: (1802-1889) | publisher=]-], Towarzystwo Kultury Polskiej Ziemi Lidzkiej | year=1995 | isbn=83-901353-6-1}} Polish language
* {{cite book | author=Zdzisław Jan Ryn | title=Ignacio Domeyko - ciudadano de dos patrias (''Ignacy Domeyko - citizen of two fatherlands'') | publisher=], ] | year=1994 | id= }} Portuguese language * {{cite book | author=Zdzisław Jan Ryn | title=Ignacio Domeyko - ciudadano de dos patrias (''Ignacy Domeyko - citizen of two fatherlands'') | publisher=], ] | year=1994 }} Portuguese language
* {{cite book | author=Zdzisław Jan Ryn | title=Ignacy Domeyko - obywatel świata (''Ignacy Domeyko - citizen of the world'') | publisher=], ] Press| year=2002| isbn=83-233-1552-3 }} , Polish language * {{cite book | author=Zdzisław Jan Ryn | title=Ignacy Domeyko - obywatel świata (''Ignacy Domeyko - citizen of the world'') | publisher=], ] Press| year=2002| isbn=83-233-1552-3 }} , Polish language
* Paz Domeyko Lea-Plaza. Ignacio Domeyko. La Vida de un Emigrante. Santiago, Chile.2002. Random House Mondadori (Editorial Sudamericana)ISBN 9562621618 Spanish language * Paz Domeyko Lea-Plaza. Ignacio Domeyko. La Vida de un Emigrante. Santiago, Chile.2002. Random House Mondadori (Editorial Sudamericana){{ISBN|9562621618}} Spanish language
* Paz Domeyko. A Life in Exile. Ignacy Domeyko 1802-1889. Sydney, Australia 2005. ISBN 0646447289 }.9. English language. Available from author. See website Paz Domeyko, www.pazdomeyko.com * Paz Domeyko. A Life in Exile. Ignacy Domeyko 1802-1889. Sydney, Australia 2005. {{ISBN|0-646-44728-9}} }.9. English language. Available from author. See website Paz Domeyko, www.domeyko.org

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== External links == == External links ==
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* {{pl icon}}/{{en icon}} . Contains a selection of articles and book reviews, some in English
* Algimantas Grigelis, , Episodes, Vol. 28, no. 4, December 2005
* An English-language article about 1999 Polish-Chilean celebrations of Domeyko's legacy.
* {{pl icon}} A Polish-language article about Domeyko in the literary supplement to ''Nowy Dziennik'' (The New Daily), a Polish-language daily published in New York City.
* {{pl icon}} Honorata Szocik, [http://naszczas2002.tripod.com/042/1str.html Życie Ignacego Domeyki, jego prace,
wkład do geologii i nauk społecznych], Nasz Czas 37 (576)
* {{be icon}} {{cite web | title=''Ігнат Дамейка — светач сусветнай цывілізацыі.'' (Ignat Dameyka — Luminary of World Civilization) | work=Матэрыялы VI Карэліцкіх чытанняў | url=http://www.skc.edu.by/vydanni/damiejka-zmiest.htm| dateformat=mdy | accessdate=May 29 2005}} Proceedings of a 2002 ]ian conference about Domeyko.
* {{pl icon}} A Polish scout troop, named for Domeyko, maintains his memory.

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* {{in lang|pl|en}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303234918/http://galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl/~domeyko/ |date=2021-03-03 }}. Contains a selection of articles and book reviews, some in English
* {{in lang|pl}} Honorata Szocik, , Nasz Czas 37 (576)
* {{cite web|title=''Ігнат Дамейка — светач сусветнай цывілізацыі.'' (Ignat Dameyka — Luminary of World Civilization) |work=Матэрыялы VI Карэліцкіх чытанняў |url=http://www.skc.edu.by/vydanni/damiejka-zmiest.htm |access-date=February 1, 2013 |language=be |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828074403/http://www.skc.edu.by/vydanni/damiejka-zmiest.htm |archive-date=August 28, 2008 }} Proceedings of a 2002 ]ian conference about Domeyko.
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Polish-Chilean geologist and educator (1802–1889)
Ignacy Domeyko
Born31 July 1802
Niedźwiadka Wielka, Russian Empire
Died23 January 1889 (1889-01-24) (aged 86)
Santiago, Chile
NationalityPolish
EducationVilnius University
Occupation(s)geologist, mineralogist

Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko, pseudonym: Żegota (Spanish: Ignacio Domeyko, Spanish pronunciation: [iɣˈnasjo ðoˈmejko]; 31 July 1802 – 23 January 1889) was a Polish geologist, mineralogist, educator, and founder of the University of Santiago, in Chile. Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his adopted country, Chile.

After a youth passed in partitioned Poland, Domeyko participated in the Polish–Russian War 1830–31. Upon Russian victory, he was exiled, spending part of his life in France (where he had gone with a fellow Philomath, Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz) before eventually settling in Chile, whose citizen he became.

He lived some 50 years in Chile and made major contributions to the study of that country's geography, geology and mineralogy. His observations on the circumstances of poverty-stricken miners and of their wealthy exploiters had a profound influence on those who would go on to shape Chile's labor movement.

Domeyko is seen as having had close ties to several countries and thus in 2002, when UNESCO organized a series of commemorations of the 200th anniversary of his birth, he was referred to as "a citizen of the world".

Life

Early life

Krakowskie Przedmieście 64, Warsaw, with plaque (opposite) commemorating Domeyko
Plaque commemorating the "distinguished son of the Polish nation and eminent citizen of Chile"

Ignacy Domeyko was born in the then Russian partition of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, at Niedźwiadka Wielka (Belarusian: Мядзьведка, romanized: Miadzviedka) Manor (Bear Cub Manor) near Nieśwież, Minsk Governorate, Imperial Russia (now Karelichy district, Belarus). The Domeyko family held the Polish Dangiel coat of arms. Ignacy's father, Hipolit Domeyko, who was president of the local land court (Polish: sąd ziemski), died when Ignacy was seven years old; the boy's uncles then served as his guardians.

In his youth Ignacy was a subject of the Russian Empire. He had, however, been brought up in the culture of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a multicultural state whose educated and dominant classes had spoken Polish as a lingua franca. Shortly before Domeyko's birth, the Commonwealth had been dismembered in the partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. For this reason, and because Domeyko subsequently spent most of his life in Chile, he is considered a person of national importance to Poles, Belarusians, Lithuanians, and Chileans.

Domeyko enrolled at Vilnius University, then known as the Imperial University of Vilna, in 1816 as a student of mathematics and physics. He studied under Jędrzej Śniadecki. Involved with the Philomaths, a secret student organisation dedicated to Polish culture and the restoration of Poland's independence, he was a close friend of Adam Mickiewicz. In 1823–24, during the investigation and trials of the Philomaths, Domeyko and Mickiewicz spent months incarcerated at Vilnius' Uniate Basilian monastery.

After participating in the November 1830 Uprising, in which Domeyko served as an officer under General Dezydery Chłapowski, in 1831 Domeyko was forced into exile in order not to face Russian reprisals.

Exile

Journeying through Germany, he arrived in France, where he would earn an engineering degree at Paris' École des Mines (School of Mining). He also studied at the Sorbonne and maintained his political engagements with Belarusians, Poles, and Lithuanians.

Chile

Bust of Domeyko, University of Chile
Domeyko; wife, Enriqueta Sotomayor y Guzmán, 1854
Domeyko, sons

In 1838 Domeyko left for Chile. There he made substantial contributions to mineralogy and the technology of mining, studied several previously unknown minerals, advocated for the civil rights of the native tribal peoples, and was a meteorologist and ethnographer. He is also credited with introducing the metric system to Latin America.

He served as a professor at a mining college in Coquimbo (La Serena) and after 1847 at the University of Chile (Universidad de Chile, in Santiago), of which he was rector for 16 years (1867–83). Domeyko gained Chilean citizenship in 1849, but declared at the time that "I may now never change my citizenship, but God grants me hope that wherever I may be—whether in the Cordilleras or in Paneriai—I shall die a Lithuanian." The term "Lithuanian" at that time designated any inhabitant, whatever his ethnicity, of the territories of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

In 1884 Domeyko returned for an extended visit to Europe and remained there until 1889, visiting his birthplace and other places in the former Commonwealth, as well as Paris and Jerusalem.

In 1887 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Jagiellonian University, in Kraków.

In 1889, soon after returning to Santiago, Chile, Domeyko died.

Memorials

Domeyko's tomb, Santiago, Chile

Named in honour of Domeyko are:

A bronze bust of Domeyko stands in the Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile, of which Domeyko was long-time rector.

In 1992, a plaque in Spanish and Polish was placed on a building at Krakowskie Przedmieście 64, in Warsaw, Poland, commemorating the "distinguished son of the Polish nation and eminent citizen of Chile."

On the 200th anniversary of his birth, UNESCO declared 2002 to be "Ignacy Domeyko Year." Several commemorative events were held in Chile under the auspices of Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Chilean President Ricardo Lagos.

In 2002, Poland and Chile jointly issued a postage stamp commemorating the 200th anniversary of Domeyko's birth.

Also in 2002, a 200th-birthday plaque honoring him was placed in the entry gate to Uniate Basilian monastery in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he and Adam Mickiewicz were held in 1823–24 during the investigation and trials of the Philomaths.

In 2015 a Belarusian climber Pavel Gorbunov placed a memorial plate on the top of Cerro Kimal in Cordillera Domeyko.

Notes

  1. Hutchison, Elizabeth Quay; Klubock, Thomas Miller, eds. (2014). "A Polish scientist among the Mapuche, Ignacio Domeyko". The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Duke University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0822353607.
  2. Moreno, Teresa; Gibbons, Wes, eds. (2007). The Geology of Chile. The Geological Society. p. 340. ISBN 978-1862392205.
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See also

References

  • Ignacy Domeyko (1962). Moje podróże: pamiętniki wygnańca (My Travels: Memoirs of an Exile). Wrocław: Ossolineum. Polish language
  • Zbigniew Wójcik (1995). Ignacy Domeyko: Litwa, Francja, Chile (Ignacy Domeyko: Lithuania, France, Chile). Wrocław, Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze. ISBN 83-904914-2-7. Polish language
  • Małgorzata Kośka (1998). Ignacy Domeyko. Warsaw, "DiG". ISBN 83-7181-062-8. Polish language
  • Jadwiga Garbowska, Krzysztof Jakubowski (1995). Ignacy Domeyko: (1802-1889). Warsaw-Lida, Towarzystwo Kultury Polskiej Ziemi Lidzkiej. ISBN 83-901353-6-1. Polish language
  • Zdzisław Jan Ryn (1994). Ignacio Domeyko - ciudadano de dos patrias (Ignacy Domeyko - citizen of two fatherlands). Antofagasta, Universidad Catolica del Norte. Portuguese language
  • Zdzisław Jan Ryn (2002). Ignacy Domeyko - obywatel świata (Ignacy Domeyko - citizen of the world). Kraków, Jagiellonian University Press. ISBN 83-233-1552-3. review, Polish language
  • Paz Domeyko Lea-Plaza. Ignacio Domeyko. La Vida de un Emigrante. Santiago, Chile.2002. Random House Mondadori (Editorial Sudamericana)ISBN 9562621618 Spanish language
  • Paz Domeyko. A Life in Exile. Ignacy Domeyko 1802-1889. Sydney, Australia 2005. ISBN 0-646-44728-9 }.9. English language. Available from author. See website Paz Domeyko, www.domeyko.org

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