His major studies were on the beetles and lepidoptera of eastern Galicia.

He attended the local gymnasium (secondary school) and entered the University of Lwów in 1848 to study law, but political problems forced him to quit those studies.

In 1873 he collected specimens for the Dzieduszycki museum in Lviv and was inducted into the Kraków-based Academy of Learning.

[1] His greatest academic achievements were in entomology, ichthyology and ornithology.

It was chiefly thanks to him that the Galician Sejm in 1868 passed a law protecting chamois, marmots and Alpine birds in the Tatra Mountains.