Aniela Chałubińska

She was one of the founders and the first director of the Institute of Regional Geography and remained there for 18 years at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

Chałubińska was born 1 October 1902 in Lviv (then part of Austria-Hungary) as the first child of chemical engineer and alpinist Ludwik Chałubiński and his wife Antonina Kamiński.

The report contained not only a description of the route and natural phenomena, but also a discussion of the origin of the observed forms of the Earth's surface.

[1] During the War and the German occupation of Poland (1939–1945) Chałubińska continued her teaching activities, officially working at the commercial school, but like many of her colleagues, she gave secret lessons.

The result of this collaboration was the organization of a small group of teachers who developed a project to reform secondary education in post-war Poland.

Chałubińska continued to lead the work of the Methodology Center for Geography and provided individual support for teachers, especially beginners.

[3] In 1950, Chałubińska was dismissed due to disloyalty from her position teaching at schools in the Lublin district for political reasons by the communist authorities who had taken control of Poland.