Władysław Szafer

Prof Władysław Szafer PAS HFRSE (July 23, 1886 – November 16, 1970) was a Polish botanist, palaeobotanist, quaternary geologist and professor of botany at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

He then studied Botany under Prof Wilhem Friedberg in Rzeszów, graduating Junior High School in 1905.

Winning a scholarship from the Vienna Ministry of Education he did practical studies at the Biological Research Station in Trieste.

He then did further studies in pedology and dendrology at the universities of Munich and Vienna before returning to Lviv to lecture at the Higher School of Forests.

With Bogumił Pawłowski he edited and distributed the exsiccata Rośliny Polskie wydawnictwa rozpoczętego przez M. Raciborskiego Seria II.