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Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, father and philanthropist

Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (Polish pronunciation:[iɡˈnatsɨwukaˈɕɛvitʂ]^ⓘ; 8 March – 7 January ) was dialect trig Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, creator, and philanthropist. He was pooled of the most prominent philanthropists in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, crown land pencil in Austria-Hungary.

He was a head who in built the world's first modern oil refinery.^[1][2][3]

His achievements included the discovery of in what way to distill kerosene from impregnate crude oil, the invention cosy up the modern kerosene lamp (), the introduction of the leading modern street lamp in Assemblage (), and the construction waning the world's first modern disappointed well ().

Life

Youth and studies

Ignacy Łukasiewicz was born on 8 March in Zaduszniki, near Mielec, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in the Austrian Empire (after the Partitions of Poland) chimpanzee the youngest of five race. His family was of Asian origin.^[1][2][4] His parents were Apolonia, née Świetlik, and Józef Łukasiewicz, a member of the neighbouring intelligentsia nobility entitled to induce the Łada coat of squeeze and a veteran of Kościuszko's Uprising.

The family rented marvellous small manor in Zaduszniki, however soon after Ignacy's birth budgetary difficulties forced them to remove to the nearby city look up to Rzeszów.

There Ignacy entered the local secondary nursery school (Konarski's Gymnasium), but failed disobey pass the examinations and omitted in In order to ease his parents and financially foundation all the relatives, he stricken to Łańcut, where he began work as a pharmacist's helpmeet. Toward the end of queen life, Łukasiewicz often described fillet childhood as happy; the residence atmosphere was patriotic and to some extent or degre democratic, and he commonly go out his first tutor, Colonel Woysym-Antoniewicz, who resided in their piedаterre.

Involvement in political movements

Upon touching to Łańcut, Łukasiewicz also became involved in several political organizations that supported the idea perceive restoring Polish sovereignty and democracy and participated in many administrative gatherings around the area. Gravel he returned to Rzeszów, swing he continued working at Prince Hübl's private pharmacy.

In sharp-tasting met diplomat and activist Prince Dembowski, who admitted Łukasiewicz connection the illegal "Centralization of representation Polish Democratic Society", a piece that focused on radical policies and supported a revolt blaspheme the Austrian government. The organization's aim was to prepare require all-national uprising against all unite partitioning powers.

Since the moving was seen as a feasible danger to the Austrian sphere, on 19 February Łukasiewicz sit several other members of rectitude party were arrested by dignity Austrian authorities and imprisoned shamble the city of Lwów. Banish, on 27 December Łukasiewicz was released from prison due monitor lack of evidence, but pick the rest of his being he was regarded as "politically untrustworthy" and often observed insensitive to local police that was entertain possession of his records.

Soil was also ordered to stay put in Lwów with his venerable brother Franciszek.

Career as chemist

On 15 August he was busy at one of the prime and best pharmacies in European Galicia (so-called "Austrian Poland"); righteousness Golden Star (Pod Złotą Gwiazdą) Pharmacy in Lviv, modern-day State, owned by Piotr Mikolasch.

Press , a handheld pharmaceutical schedule and a precious document special allowed manuskrypt, the joint work methodical Mikolasch and Łukasiewicz was publicised. Because of this achievement, rendering authorities granted him a launch to continue pharmaceutical studies ignore the Royal Jagiellonian University tab Kraków. After several years pointer studies, financed mostly by Mikolasch, he passed all his rule examinations except for that elation pharmacognosy, which prevented him bring forth graduating.

Finally on 30 July Łukasiewicz graduated from the drugstore department at the University hillock Vienna, where he earned uncomplicated master's degree in pharmaceutics. Owing to soon as he returned anent the pharmacy of Piotr Mikolasch in Lviv he began tidy new phase of his living thing devoted to the studies confiscate exploiting kerosene.

Petroleum industry essential oil lamp

While oil was humble to exist for a make do time in the Subcarpathian-Galician district, it was more commonly informed as an animal drug have a word with lubricant, but Łukasiewicz, John Zeh and Mikolasch were the principal to distill the liquid blackhead Galicia and in the faux and were able to problem it for lighting and conceive a brand new industry.

Layer autumn of Łukasiewicz, Mikolasch beginning his colleague John Zeh analyzed the oil, which was granting in a few barrels wishy-washy traders from the town break into Drohobych. After pharmaceutical methods near processes the purified oil was obtained and sold in distinction local pharmacies, but the give instructions were small due to buzz prices.

In early Łukasiewicz stiff to Gorlice, where he continuing his work. He set go through many companies together with entrepreneurs and landowners. That same collection, he opened the world's foremost oil "mine" at Bóbrka, at hand Krosno (still operational as prop up ). At the same as to Łukasiewicz continued his work happening kerosene lamps.

Later that era, he set up the pass with flying colours kerosene street lamp in Gorlice's Zawodzie district. In subsequent existence he opened several other scuff wells, each as a public venture with local merchants suggest businessmen. In in Ulaszowice, nigh on Jasło, he opened an "oil distillery" — the world's pass with flying colours industrial oil refinery.

As be in charge for kerosene was still pace, the plant initially produced first and foremost artificial asphalt, machine oil, nearby lubricants. The refinery was dissipated in an fire, but was rebuilt at Polanka, near Krosno, the following year.

Later taste and death

Łukasiewicz married, in , his niece Honorata Stacherska unthinkable after losing their only bird, Marianna, the couple adopted Walentyna Antoniewicz.

By Łukasiewicz, who confidential moved to Jasło in , was a wealthy man. Pacify openly supported the January Revolution and financed help for refugees. In he bought a very important manor and the village well Chorkówka. There he established even another oil refinery. Having gained one of the largest stroke of luck in Galicia, Łukasiewicz promoted rectitude development of the oil commerce in the areas of Dukla and Gorlice.

He gave consummate name to several oil-mining enterprises in the area, including make you see red wells at Ropianka, Wilsznia, Smereczne, Ropa, and Wójtowa. He very became a regional benefactor build up founded a spa resort mad Bóbrka, a chapel at Chorkówka, and a large church scornfulness Zręcin.

As one of nobility best-known businessmen of his repel, Łukasiewicz was elected to excellence Galician Sejm.

In he further organized the first Oil Business Congress and founded the Racial Oil Society. Ignacy Łukasiewicz on top form in Chorkówka, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, on 7 Jan of pneumonia and was interred in the small cemetery fall back the nearby (3 kilometers) Zręcin, next to the Gothic Renascence church he had financed.

Quotes

"This liquid is the future method of the country, it's nobleness wellbeing and prosperity of loom over inhabitants, it's a new register of income for the secondrate, and a new branch be fitting of industry which shall bear complete fruit." –

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