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We discuss the photograph procured from the archives of the V.Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine dated by 1904 which shows Marian Smoluchowski together with professors and graduate students of the Philosophy department of the Lviv University. The personalia includes both the professors and the graduates depicted on the photograph with the emphasis on the graduates as being much less known and studied. The photograph originates from the collection of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, therefore a brief historical background on the activities of physicists in this society around that period of time is provided as well.
Розглянуто фотографiю датовану 1904 роком з Архiву Львiвської нацiональної наукової бiблiотеки iм.В. Стефаника, на якiй зображено професорiв та випускникiв четвертого року навчання фiлософського факультету Львiвського унiверситету. Свiтлина походить iз колекцiї Наукового Товариства iм. Шевченка, тому подано коротку iсторичну довiдку про дiяльнiсть цього товариства на межi ХIX-XX столiть. Персоналiя включає коротку довiдку про зображених на фото професорiв та ширшу iнформацiю про випускникiв (як таку, яка менш доступна в довiдкових джерелах).
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Condensed Matter Physics, 2012, Vol. 15, No 4, 47101: 1–8
DOI: 10.5488/CMP.15.47101
http://www.icmp.lviv.ua/journal
Chronicle
Marian Smoluchowski: A story behind one
photograph
A. Ilnytska1, J. Ilnytskyi2, Yu. Holovatch2, A. Trokhymchuk2
1 V. Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine, 79000 Lviv, Ukraine
2 Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
1 Svientsitskii St., 79011 Lviv, Ukraine
Received October 29, 2012, in final form December 3, 2012
We discuss the photograph procured from the archives of the V.Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of
Ukraine dated by 1904 which shows Marian Smoluchowski together with professors and graduate students
of the Philosophy department of the Lviv University. The personalia includes both the professors and the grad-
uates depicted on the photograph with the emphasis on the graduates as being much less known and studied.
The photograph originates from the collection of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, therefore a brief historical
background on the activities of physicists in this society around that period of time is provided as well.
Key words: history of science, Shevchenko Scientific Society, Lviv University, Marian Smoluchowski
PACS: 01.60.+q, 01.65.+g
1. About the photograph and its origin
Not so many photographs of Marian Smoluchowski are known. To our best knowledge, the pho-
tographs representing Marian Smoluchowski together with his colleagues and students are altogether
absent. That is why the photograph (see figure 1) recently discovered in the archives of the Institute for
Library Art Resources Studies which belongs to the V. Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine
seems to be especially valuable. The picture on the photograph has dimensions 22.8×29.7 cm and shows
four professors of the Philosophy department of Lviv University and eight 4th year absolvents (gradu-
ates). All this information is the part of the handwritten description that is found on the frontside of
the photograph and includes the date (June, 1904) and all the names written in Ukrainian. The backside
contains the year (1904) and the names written by ink either in Polish or in Ukrainian (possibly at the
date the photograph was taken).
The photograph was found among a collection that once belonged to the museum of Shevchenko Sci-
entific Society (abbreviated hereafter as NTSh — from its name in Ukrainian: Наукове Товариство iм.
Шевченка) [1, 2]. The NTSh museum was closed in 1940 and, as a result, part of its collection was trans-
ferred to the newly established Academic Library in Lviv (now the V. Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific
Library of Ukraine). Currently all these materials are stored in the archives of the Institute for Library
Art Resources Studies that is part of this library.
The collection of the NTSh museum, including the photographs, was filled-up either by the purchases
made by the museum or owing to the gifts obtained from the patrons. New additions were reported
systematically in the Chronicle of Shevchenko Scientific Society in the section Museum Status. For instance,
in the report for the years 1923–1925, the then manager of the museum Yuriy Polyansky wrote that “the
previous years brought further progress into the development of the museum. New exhibits started to
be collected and the existing collections enlarged. . . At the end one needs to note that our citizens started
to be interested in the museum fortune. This is evident from quite a number of gifts that arrived at the
museum and from the increase of the number of visitors” [3]. How exactly the photograph, which is the
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subject of our study, became a part of the collection of the NTSh museum is not known. One of the
possibilities is that it might have belonged to Ivan Bodnar, one of the graduates depicted on it, who was
president of NTSh during the years 1940–1944, and could have well offered it to the museum.
The NTSh society was founded in Lviv in December 1873. It was named after famous Ukraine’s na-
tional poet and artist Taras Shevchenko. After being reorganized in 1892, the society acquired features of
a typical scientific association and served as the first unofficial Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
One of its sections was devoted to mathematics, natural sciences and medicine. We will provide here
some brief historical account on the development of physics within NTSh society and on the physicists
who were members of NTSh.
Various fields of physics were represented in the NTSh society during different time periods of its
activity1. Among the first full NTSh members (academicians) who were elected in 1899, one finds the
names of Ivan Puluj, Volodymyr Levytsky and Petro Ohonovsky. The first of them, Ivan Puluj (1845–1918)
is known for his work in the fields of physics, electrical engineering and theology2. The major fields of
Puluj’s interests in physics were molecular physics, cathode rays and X-rays. In particular, by using the
electric discharge tubes of his own construction, Puluj obtained fundamental results on cathode rays.
Within a variety of vacuum lamps in electrical engineering there is one known as a ’Puluj lamp’. Early in
1896, a month and half after Röntgen’s publication on the discovery of X-rays, Ivan Puluj has submitted
two papers [8, 9] where he provided a deep explanation of the origin of X-rays and discovered their ion-
ization properties. There are many evidences that the Puluj tube gave the highest quality X-ray pictures
[6]. Volodymyr Levytsky (1872–1956) for a long time was the head of the mathematical-natural sciences-
medical section within NTSh and was the NTSh president in 1931–1935. Although his principal field of
activity was mathematics, he also contributed to physics by publishing papers, by compiling Ukrainian
physical dictionaries, and by writing textbooks on physics in Ukrainian [10]. Another NTSh full member,
Petro Ohonovsky (1853–1917) is known as the author of the first physics textbook in Ukrainian [11].
Later on among the full NTShmembers one can findmore representatives of different fields of physics
and engineering. In particular, these are: Yulian Hirniak (1881–1970) — physical chemistry; Roman Tse-
heljsky (1882–1956)— physics of electrolytes; Volodymyr Kucher (1885–1959)— quantummechanics and
quantum statistics; Stepan Tymoshenko (1878–1972) — mechanics; Ivan Feshchenko-Chopivsky (1884–
1952)—metallurgy; Oleksander Smakula (1900–1983)— optics, known in particular, owing to the discov-
ery of anti-reflective coating of lenses; Andrij Lastovetsky (1902–1943) — spectroscopy; Zenon Khraplyvy
(1904–1983)— relativistic quantummechanics. In 1920-ies Max Plank (1858–1947), Albert Einstein (1879–
1955) and Abram Ioffe (1880–1960) were elected full members of the NTSh society. Many interesting doc-
uments about contacts of these and other scientists with the NTSh society are now available in the NTSh
archives, main parts of which are stored at the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv [12],
V. Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine, National Library of Warsaw [13] and some other
institutions3.
2. Personalia
The photograph shown in figure 1 reveals four mature professors sitting in the front, and eight hand-
some 4th year graduates in their youth (all around 24 years of age) standing behind them. The professors,
from left to right, are Jan Rajewski, Ignacy Zakrzewski, Józef Puzyna and Marian Smoluchowski, all of
whom were lecturing physics and mathematics in the year the photo was taken. Since the Lviv period
of Marian Smoluchowski’s life is a subject of a separate paper in this issue [14], we will omit detailed
information on Smoluchowski here, referring the readers to the above mentioned sources as well as to
references [15–19]. The short information given below concerns other three professors [20–22].
1Shevchenko Scientific Society was liquidated by Soviet power in 1940, in 1947 it renewed its activity in Western Europe and in
the USA, in 1989 it was restored in Ukraine [4, 5].
2Together with P. Kulish and I. Nechuy-Levytsky he made the first translation of the Old and the New Testament from Ancient
Greek to Ukrainian [6, 7].
3See reference [13] for a comprehensive description of main sources.
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Jan Rajewski (1857–1906) was born in Lesser Poland4. He attended gymnasiums (high schools) in
Drohobych and Lviv. During 1875–1879 Jan Rajewski studied mathematics and physics in the Philosophy
department of the Lviv University and in 1884 he received here a doctoral degree. In the 1883–1890
Rajewski worked as a school teacher of mathematics and physics in Lviv, Stanislav and Kraków. In 1900
Rajewski became an extraordinary professor of mathematics at Lviv University. His works are devoted
to the theory of differential equations. He is buried in Lviv at Lychakiv Cemetery.
IgnacyZakrzewski (1860–1932)was born in Ternopil and graduated from Lviv University in 1882. He
worked at Lviv University (1882–1886), at Kraków University (1887–1891), and studied at Berlin Univer-
sity (1892). In 1893 Ignacy Zakrzewski became a professor. During 1892–1920 he was head of the chair of
experimental physics at Lviv University. Main scientific interests include physics of ice and temperature
behavior of the heat capacity of solids.
Józef Puzyna (1856–1919) was born in Novy Martyniv (province of Stanislav5). In 1875 he finished
the gymnasium in Lviv and studied mathematics at Lviv University. After defending a doctoral thesis in
1883, Puzyna continued his studies at Berlin University, where one of his teachers was Karl Weierstrass.
Since 1885 Puzyna lectured at Lviv University and in 1892 he became an ordinary professor and headed
the chair of mathematics. During 1905 (the next year after the photograph in figure 1 was taken) Józef
Puzyna was rector, and in 1906 — vice rector of Lviv University. Puzyna’s main field of activity was the
theory of analytic functions. Among his students there were Volodymyr Levytsky, Hugo Steinhaus, Antoni
Łomnicki, Waclaw Sierpiṅski.
Obviously, all professors shown in the photograph were already well established in their career
whereas the destiny of the eight young men after graduation from the Lviv University could provide
a high-quality literary plot (in a way German romanticist E.T.A. Hoffmann was inspired by the engrav-
ings by Jacques Callot in his Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier). We intentionally concentrated on the life
stories of the graduates, as far as these are much less known as compared to that of their teachers.
The first standing from the left is Józef Bartkiewicz and to our regret we found nothing on his biog-
raphy data. The second standing from the left is Ivan Bodnar (Iван Боднар). The following information
can be found in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine [23]. Ivan Bodnar was born on 1 September, 1880
in the village Vovkiv (now Peremyshlyany district of Lviv region). From 1900 Bodnar attended Vienna
University. In 1905 he graduated from the Philosophy department of Lviv University. Then, Ivan Bod-
nar taught mathematics and physics at Ternopil Teachers Training Seminary (1906–1921) and later on at
both Peremyshl Gymnasium and Ternopil Gymnasium (1921–1931). In 1930th he worked at the Ternopil
Ukrainian Bank, and in 1940–1941 and 1944–1950 at the Academic Library in Lviv (now V. Stefanyk Lviv
National Scientific Library of Ukraine). During 1941–1944 Ivan Bodnar worked as an accountant at the
Lviv City administration.
More sketches to the personality of Ivan Bodnar can be found in the historical studies, especially on
his involvement in politics in 1918 [24] and his role in the social and cultural life of Ternopil in 1920–
1930 [25, 26]. In particular, Ivan Bodnar is mentioned as head of the Teachers’ Society and co-founder
of the Ladies Institute in Ternopil [26]. Among others, Ivan Bodnar was a subject of coordinated night
searches performed by authorities in September 1930.
Since 1910 Ivan Bodnar was a member of the NTSh. During 1939–1940 he was vice-president and in
1940–1946 he was president of the NTSh. Professor Ivan Bodnar died on 18 December, 1968 in Lviv [23].
According to the indication on the front side of the photograph, the third graduate from the left is An-
toni Łomnicki. Although the handwriting on the back side is not so clear (reads more like “Hordynski”),
we are quite sure that this must be Łomnicki6.
Antoni Łomnicki was born on 17 January, 1881 in Lviv. He studied at the Lviv University and the Uni-
versity of Göttingen, attending courses given by H. Minkowski, D. Hilbert and F. Klein7. In 1920 Łomnicki
became a professor of Lviv Polytechnic and his field of interests included mathematical analysis, proba-
bilistics, statistics, cartography, didactics, applied mathematics. In 1938 Łomnicki became a member of
the Warsaw Scientific Society (TWN) [27]. In 1920–1922, one of the founders of modern functional anal-
ysis Stefan Banach was an assistant of Prof. Łomnicki. Later Łomnicki was a major adviser for Banach’s
4Malopolska (Polish), which is one of the historical regions of Poland, its capital is the city of Kraków.
5Ivano-Frankivsk at present.
6We compare the image in figure 1 with the later photographs of professor Antoni Łomnicki.
7D. Hilbert and F. Klein were members of the NTSh.
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doctoral thesis until his habilitation at Lviv University.
Antoni Łomnicki tragically died on 4 July, 1941 in Wzgórza Wuleckie (part of Lviv) in the massacre
of Lviv professors by Nazi occupation forces [28]. In December 1944 Stefan Banach wrote the following
tribute to professor Łomnicki: “A native of Lviv, he worked for over twenty years as a mathematics pro-
fessor at Lviv Polytechnic. 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 unri-
valed educator, one of the best I have ever known. 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 of a high level. Equally effective were his efforts as an instructor
and pedagogue. Professor Łomnicki had tremendous energy and a great work ethic” [29].
The fourth graduate from the left is Nykyfor Danysh (Никифор Даниш). He was born in 1877.
After graduating from Lviv University Nykyfor Danysh dedicated himself to teaching, was active as an
organizer of various private schools in Kolomyia and Stanislav. In particular, in 1908 Nykyfor Danysh
started teaching at Kolomyia Ukrainian Gymnasium, alongside with Roman Shypaylo, another graduate
depicted on the photograph that we are discussing [30]. Danysh wrote several books on the history of the
Kolomyia Gymnasium [30, 33]. In turmoil of the end of 1918, Nykyfor Danysh was a member of the of the
West Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR) administration in Chortkiv (Ternopil region) [31].
In 1921, being amember of the Ukrainian Teachers Society, Nykyfor Danyzh established the Ukrainian
Ladies Gymnasium in Stanislav and became its first director. The memoirs of a former student of this
gymnasium gave him an account of being a great teacher and the true patriot [32]. Nykyfor Danysh can
be found in the photograph of all graduates of Kolomyia Gymnasium during the years 1914–1939 (see
photo in reference [34], where Nykyfor Danysh is eighth from the left sitting in the first row). Nykyfor
Danyzh immigrated to United States where he died in 1954 [35].
The fifth graduate from the left is Reverend Volodymyr Ardan (о. Володимир Ардан). He was
born in Polyany, Korosnyansky povit (Lemkivshchyna region) and was a professor of mathematics in
the State Ukrainian Gymnasium in Peremyshl [37]. In 1905 he took an active position establishing a
pre-gymnasium hostel for pupils coming from the nearby villages and until 1910 was a director of this
hostel [36].
In 1934 the Roman Throne established the Lemky Apostle Administration and Rev. V. Ardan became
a member of the Lemky Capitula in Rymanov, holding a position of synod judge [37]. In his memoirs
Rev. V. Hrynyk also recalls Volodymyr Ardan as a great mathematician and teacher in the Peremyshl
Gymnasium and mentions that he was arrested during the Nazi occupation for unclear reasons [38].
The sixth graduate from the left is Zdzislaw Thullie. He was a son of a well known scientist, Prof.
Maksymilian Thullie (1853–1939), twice rector of the Lviv Politechnic, expert in bridge construction, sen-
ator and an active Christian-Democrat politician. Zdzislaw Thullie was interested in the theory of metals.
We found his paper (in Polish) published in 1908 [39, 40] and a book (in French) published in 1912 [41].
He was also a professor and taught physics at the first Lviv Real School.
Zdzislaw Thullie was in the middle of his career and was to be habilitated soon when his life was
abruptly terminated by a tragic accident that happened on 16 June, 1922. The story (based on contem-
porary newspapers) is retold by Stanisław S. Nicieja [42]. Z. Thullie together with two other professors
(Łopuszański and Zagórski) took a large group of their students for a trip to Bubnyshcha (rocky region
near Bolekhiv, now Ivano-Frankivsk district) to have some leisure before the exams. The sunny day was
spent among the rocks, and the night — inside the tents. On the next day, after breakfast, all walked back
towards the train station to return to Lviv in time for the teachers conference (in which the professors
participated). However, around noon, a sudden storm with lightning broke up. Z. Thullie with two stu-
dents separated from the rest and stopped by the river to watch for rough waves. Professor, in romantic
mood, said to pupils: “Watch, guys, what a wonderful and at the same terrifying view!”. Next moment the
lightning tore the sky with the roar and Prof. Thullie fell down struck by it. None of immediate first aid
measures could help as the death was instantaneous, and the most that students could do was to bring
the body to Lviv for the funeral which took place a few days later and was attended by many.
The seventh graduate from the left is Roman Shypaylo (Роман Шипайло). After graduation, since
1906 he worked as a teacher in Kolomyia Ukrainian Gymnasium, alongside with Nykyfor Danysh [30].
Besides teaching mathematics and physics, Roman Shypaylo was also known as a great enthusiast of
Ukrainian choir music. He organized and directed the school choir which performed much of the avail-
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able contemporary Ukranian repertoire (among others, such large-scale compositions as Kavkaz by S. Lud-
kevych and Haydamaky by J. Kyshakevych) [43]. In the newspapers of that time one can find the articles
by R. Shypaylo [44]. Mary Beck (1908–2005), the first woman elected to Detroit’s City Council, who studied
in 1920th in Kolomyia, characterized Shypajlo as a former soldier (he served in the Ukrainian Galician
Army, UHA), having a romantic soul and as a great admirer of photography [46]. Roman Szypajlo also
initiated and patronized the 13th girls Plast (Ukrainian scout) regiment.
The rightmost graduate depicted in the photograph is Ivan Sitnytsky (Iван Сiтницький). He was
born on 25 June, 1881 in Komarno (the village near Lviv) and died on 10 October, 1947 in Lviv [47]. Ivan
Sitnytsky taught exact sciences at Lviv Academic Gymnasium [48]. He published several textbooks on
geometry, chemistry and physics. Sitnytsky was a member of the NTSh. Similarly to Roman Shypaylo,
Sitnytsky also served as a centurion in the UHA. Early in 1919 the Artillery School was established in
Stryi, then it was moved to Stanislav. The school was well equipped for teaching and supplied with a
good amount of cannons and horses. After its first commandant officer was moved to another regiment,
his place was taken by Ivan Sitnytsky [49].
The jubileum book for the Lviv Academic Gymnasium [50] contains numerous references and mem-
oirs concerning Prof. I. Sitnytsky. It is mentioned that he taught mathematics in higher classes intro-
ducing Ukrainian terminology. The lectures on physics were also given by him (reference [50], p. 467).
Together with Dr. Chaikivsky they lectured the seminar Problems and methods in Physics in the Circle for
Natural sciences (reference [50], p. 179).
3. Instead of summary
Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917) was an outstanding scientist, one of the founders of the modern
statistical physics. His life was bright but, unfortunately, very short. Native Polish, Marian Smoluchowski
was born in Vienna and lived there until receiving a doctoral degree. At the age of forty five Marian
Smoluchowski unexpectedly died in Kraków, shortly after moving there from Lviv, where he spent his
fourteen most fruitful years in science. Although there are numerous studies [14, 17–19] dedicated to
the life and scientific activities of Marian Smoluchowski, some questions still remain open. One of them
concerns the pupils and/or coworkers that Smoluchowski could have in Lviv. The present sketches do not
answer these questions directly, but still shed some light regarding the scientific (and, to some degree,
political) atmosphere at those times. We hope that both the photograph and our sketchy study, could be
helpful for those interested in the history of science and physics in particular.
Acknowledgement
We are thankful to Yaroslav Hrytsak, Roman Plyatsko and Halyna Svarnyk for useful suggestions.
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Марiан Смолуховський: iсторiя одного фото
А. Iльницька1, Я. Iльницький2, Ю. Головач2, А. Трохимчук2
1 Львiвська нацiональна наукова бiблiотека України iм. В. Стефаника, 79000 Львiв, Україна
2 Iнститут фiзики конденсованих систем НАН України, вул. Свєнцiцького, 1, 79011 Львiв, Україна
Розглянуто фотографiю датовану 1904 роком з Архiву Львiвської нацiональної наукової бiблiотеки iм.
В. Стефаника, на якiй зображено професорiв та випускникiв четвертого року навчання фiлософського
факультету Львiвського унiверситету. Свiтлина походить iз колекцiї Наукового Товариства iм. Шевченка,
тому подано коротку iсторичну довiдку про дiяльнiсть цього товариства на межi ХIX-XX столiть. Персона-
лiя включає коротку довiдку про зображених на фото професорiв та ширшу iнформацiю про випускникiв
(як таку, яка менш доступна в довiдкових джерелах).
Ключовi слова: iсторiя науки, Наукове Товариство iм. Шевченка, Львiвський унiверситет, Марiан
Смолуховський
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About the photograph and its origin
Personalia
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