Konstantyn Jelski
Zoologist
ornithologist, zoologist
He was an acclaimed Belarus-born Polish ornithologist and zoologist. Born in the village Liady, today's Smalyavichy Raion of Belarus[1], he conducted many important studies abroad, specifically in 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 dep. of Academy of Learning in Kraków.