Julian Talko-Hryncewicz – physician, anthropologist and Siberia explorer

Julian Talko-Hryncewicz was born in Polish family of noble descent in Lithuania in 1850. He graduated from University in Kiev with diploma in medicine in 1876. He begun his practice in Zwinogródka in Ukraine. He left to Siberia in 1891 where he got the job of regional physician in the town Troickosowsk. He got back to Poland to run the Department of Anthropology at the Jagiellonian University in 1809. During the First World War he organised the Buriacki Field Hospital (1915–1917) in Petersburg. In the independent Poland he got back to the Jagiellonian University where he published many medical and anthropological publications. He died in Cracow in 1936.