Career
Born in the village Liady, today"s Smalyavichy Raion of Minsk Governorate (in present-day Belarus), he conducted many important studies abroad, specifically in French Guiana and Peru from 1866 to 1875. He was the curator of a museum in Lima from 1874 to 1878, when he came Poland to become the curator of the Natural History deputy of Academy of Learning in KrakóWest