death_date death_place children birth_place nationality birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
28 january 1954 kraków witold -lrb- 1904 -- 1988 -rrb- romer -lrb- 1900 -- 1967 -rrb- edmund romer lwów polish 03 february 1871 jadwiga rossknecht -lrb- since 1899 -rrb- eugeniusz romer.jpg eugeniusz romer
 eugeniusz mikołaj romer geographer cartographer geopolitician
eugeniusz romer

eugeniusz mikołaj romer -lrb- 3 february 1871 in lwów -lrb- lviv , lemberg -rrb- -- 28 january 1954 -rrb- was a distinguished polish geographer , cartographer and geopolitician , whose maps and atlases are still highly valued by polish experts .
born in the austrian-hungarian empire , he graduated from a high school in nowy sącz and studied history , geology , geography and meteorology at the jagiellonian university in kraków , also attending courses in lwów and halle -lrb- saale -rrb- .
in 1894 , romer earned a doctorate in philosophy at lwów university .
he was a president of polish copernicus society of naturalists -lrb- 1910 -- 11 -rrb- .
in final years of the 19th century , he went to vienna and berlin to broaden his knowledge of glaciology , geology and meteorology .
romer also went to lausanne , to study tectonics and morphology .
in 1911 he became professor of lwów university -lrb- in 1946 also of jagiellonian university -rrb- , later he was named `` professor honoris causa '' at the universities in lwów , poznań and kraków .
in 1952 he became a member of polish academy of sciences in 1909 romer went to switzerland , to study alpine glaciers .
next year , he traveled to asia , and in 1913 to alaska , to the saint elias mountains -lrb- where one of glaciers has been named after him -rrb- .
in 1916 , while in vienna , romer started work on the `` great statistical and geographical atlas of poland '' .
this atlas , published in vienna in 1916 , was crucial to establishing borders of the second polish republic .
he was a member of the polish delegation at the paris peace conference , 1919 , helping to draw the western border of poland .
a second edition of his atlas was published in lwów and warsaw in 1921 .
in 1921 in lwów romer founded `` cartigraphical institute ksiaznica-atlas '' , which was moved to wrocław after world war ii .
it still exists today .
in 1929 he retired , concentrating his activities on the institute .
however , he kept close ties with lwów 's jan kazimierz university , lecturing and examining .
in 1941 , when lwów was captured by the germans , he hid in a monastery at piekarska street , and this decision probably saved his life .
soon after , the home army decided to move him to warsaw , from where he was to be transferred to england to work as an advisor of the polish government-in-exile .
however , doctors recommended that romer should stay in the occupied country , as the journey was too risky for his weak health .
thus , he remained in warsaw , using the false name edmund piotrowski .
romer survived the warsaw uprising and a camp in pruszków .
after the war , he settled in kraków , taking post of director of department of geography at the jagiellonian university .
since 1899 , he had been married to jadwiga rossknecht , daughter of co-owner of the okocim brewery .
they had two sons : witold romer -lrb- 1900 -- 1967 -rrb- , professor of the wrocław university of technology and edmund romer -lrb- 1904 -- 1988 -rrb- , professor of the silesian university of technology in gliwice .
eugeniusz romer died 1954 in kraków and was buried at the salwator cemetery .
