HENRYK Szarski Ph.D., a honorary member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and retired professor of Jagiellonian University, died 16 January 2002 at the age of 90. He was born in Kraków (south Poland) 13 September 1912. His life and professional work was centered in two cities, Kraków and Toruñ. Young Szarski attended public schools in Kraków then entered Jagiellonian University (Kraków), graduating with a Bachelor Science in Zoology and joined the Department of Comparative Anatomy of Jagiellonian University, where he worked under Michał Siedlecki and Zygmunt Grodziñski. In 1937, he obtained his Ph.D.
In that same year, he married Irena Jordan Warzycka; they have two children, Marcin and Maria. During the Second World War and German occupation, the university was closed, and to survive, Szarski, who lived in Poland with his family, had to work in different jobs. After the war, the university was reopened, and he...