Career
Pioneer of the modern Polish mathematical bibliography. He was an author of works mainly about road, iron road and bridge constructions, cartography, topography and entomology. Author of Polish, French and German dictionary of architecture, building engineering and materials science terms.
Author and publisher of Free City of Krakow maps from 1833, city map of Krakow from 1834 and health resorts map of Galicia and Bukowina.
Żebrawski derived the chain curve formula and applied it to the bridge arc calculations. He published a paper on the main causes of train derailment and its present methods.
He introduced his own method of maps and map graticule classification. He researched and described changes in fauna of butterflies in Krakow region.
Żebrawski directed restorations of Dominicans Church in Krakow, altars of Saint Mary"s Basilica and Royal Graves of the Wawel Cathedral.
Żebrawski was also a translator. His notable translations to Polish language includes The Poems of Ossian originally written by James Macpherson and Diversarum Artium Schedula — Libri III by Theophilus Presbyter. He participated in the November Uprising (1830–1831) as a First Lieutenant-Engineer (porucznik-inżynier) of Józef Dwernicki corps and in the Krakow Uprising (1846) as a Captain (kapitan).
Żebrawski was born on 5 April 1800 in Wojnicz, Poland.
In 1818 graduated Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School in KrakóWest After that, he studied philosophy, nature, English philology, mathematics and astronomy at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and mining, building engineering and topography at the Szkoła Akademiczno-Górnicza in Kielce.
In 1832 he graduated doctor of philosophy and liberal science at the Jagiellonian University. In the years of 1832–1834 he worked as a lecturer and then adjunct of the Natural History and Botanics Department at the Jagiellonian University.
In 1837–1853 he worked as a land and water transport inspector of KrakóWest
In 1830s, Żebrawski designed and built a road through the Free City of Krakow with two bridges over Krzeszówka and Dłubnia. Between 1825–1831, he made a triangulation of Dobrzyń Land, Pułtusk obwód, Świętokrzyskie Mountains, Sandomierz region, regions between Warsaw, Włodawa and Bug, and Wilno Governorate region. Participant of these measurements were used in the 1839 map of Kingdom of Poland.
He died in Krakow on 5 February 1887.