Ignacy Żagiell

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Ignacy Żagiell (1 February 1826, Kierpszyszki or Powiryn, Vilna Province - 21 June 1891, Warsaw) was a physician, traveler and Polish-language writer.

Contents 1 Life 2 Notable works 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Life

Żagiell served as an army physician in Great Britain from 1859, and as a civilian physician in Turkey from 1864.

He travelled in India, Egypt and the Near East.

[edit] Notable works

• Historia starożytnego Egiptu (History of Ancient Egypt, 1880);
• Podróż historyczna po Abisynii, Adel, Szoa, Nubii, u źródeł Nilu... (1884; some of the descriptions in this book are probably not authentic).

[edit] See also

• Pharaoh (novel, by Bolesław Prus, which drew from Żagiell's History of Ancient Egypt).

[edit] References

• "Żagiell Ignacy". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN. Retrieved on 2006-11-18.
• "ŻAGIELL Ignacy". Interia.pl - encyklopedia. Retrieved on 2006-11-18.
• "Żagiell Ignacy". Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN (first edition) 6: 1068. (1997). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. ISBN 83-01-11969-1.