Józef Dziędzielewicz

Józef Dziędzielewicz (September 4, 1844 – February 24, 1918) was a Polish entomologist and a specialist on the insect fauna of the Carpathians particularly of the Neuroptera, Trichoptera, and Odonata.

Dziędzielewicz was born on in Lviv and when at high school became a friend of Marian Łomnicki, who introduced him to entomology.

He then went to study Law at the University of Lviv and here he came in contact with count Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki who was setting up a natural history museum.

He retired from his legal profession in 1907 and continued to study insects including the collections of Maksymilian Nowicki made in the Tatras.

He collaborated with Piotr Kempny, František Klapálek, Kenneth J. Morton, Friedrich Ris, Georg Ulmer and Günther Enderlein.

Portrait from the Library of the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences