Ignacy Żagiell

Ignacy Żagiell (Lithuanian: Ignotas Žagelis) (February 14, 1826, Pavirinčiai, Anykščiai district, Lithuania - 21 June 1891, Warsaw or Vilnius) was a physician, traveler and Polish-language writer, descending from Lithuanian nobility.

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.

Notable works

• Historja starożytnego Egiptu (History of Ancient Egypt, 1880);
• Podróż historyczna po Abissynii, Adel, Szoa, Nubii, u źródeł Nilu, z opisaniem jego wodospadów, oraz po krajach podrównikowych; do Mekki i Medyny, Syryi i Palestyny, Konstantynopolu i po Archipelagu (1884; reprint published in 2012; some of the descriptions in this book are probably not authentic).

See also

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

References

• Ignotas Žagelis
• "Żagiell Ignacy". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN. Retrieved 2006-11-18. 
• "ŻAGIELL Ignacy". Interia.pl - encyklopedia. Retrieved 2006-11-18. 
• "Żagiell Ignacy". Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN. 6 (1 ed.). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. 1997. p. 1068. ISBN 83-01-11969-1.