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 antoni Łomnicki jan kazimierz university in lwów
antoni Łomnicki

antoni marian Łomnicki -lrb- 17 january 1881 -- 4 july 1941 -rrb- was a polish mathematician .
antoni was educated at jan kazimierz university in lwów and the university of göttingen .
in 1920 he became professor of the lwów university of technology .
in 1938 he became a member of the warsaw scientific society -lrb- twn -rrb- .
he was murdered by the germans during the second world war on the wzgórza wuleckie in lwów in the massacre of lwów professors .
in december 1944 stefan banach wrote the following tribute to Łomnicki : a native of lwów , he worked for over twenty years as a mathematics professor at the lwów university of technology .
he prepared hundreds of engineers for their profession .
i was his assistant .
he was the first to instil in me the importance and responsibility of a professor 's task .
he was an unrivalled educator , one of the best i ever knew .
he was the author of many popular schoolbooks as well as textbooks on advanced analysis for technologists , surpassing in quality those published abroad .
his work in the field of cartography was at a high level .
equally effective were his teaching and pedagogic efforts .
professor Łomnicki had tremendous energy and a great work ethic .
