Ignacy lukasiewicz arrested
Jan Boży Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz was born in in Zaduszniki in Padew Narodowa parish (currently Mielec County, Podkarpackie Voivodeship) in impoverished noble family as a son of Józef and Apolonia née Świetlik. In he finished the 4th grade of Piarist Order Middle School in Rzeszów.
Ignacy lukasiewicz arrested Lukashenko, Aleksandr Grigoryevich. In other projects. Lukens, Rebecca — Defenders of Wildlife U.Because of hard material conditions in his family he started working in a pharmacy in Łańcut and later in Rzeszów. He joined there a secret patriotic organisation and in he was arrested on charges of illegal activity against the Austrian invader. He was in prison until
After getting out of prison he started working in Piotr Mikolasch’s „Pod Gwiazdą” pharmacy in Lwów.
In he studied pharmacy at universities in Kraków and Wiedeń.
Ignacy lukasiewicz biografia Awarded the papal Order of St. In comparison to previous work on petroleum, studies carried out by Ignacy Lukasiewicz and Jan Zeh were based on the contemporary knowledge and the use of professional pharmacy equipment. Back in Lviv, Lukasiewicz first worked with petroleum, collaborating in its distillation with his colleague Jan Zeh in the years At first the wells were only 15 meters deep, but Lukasiewicz soon succeeded in increasing the depth to 60 meters, and then, in the case of a well named Izydor, to meters.In he earned the title of MSc in pharmacy in Wiedeń and came back to Lwów to work as a pharmacist in Piotr Mikolasch’s pharmacy.
In together with Jan Zehn Ignacy Łukasiewicz conducted in the back room of the pharmacy some research on crude oil.
After purification of the liquid he obtained lighting kerosene. On 31 July in a hospital in Łyczaków district in Lwów kerosene lamps made according to Łukasiewicz’s project by a sheet metal worker, Adam Bratkowski, were lit for the first time.
31 July is considered as the date of establishment of Polish oil industry.
At the turn of and Łukasiewicz left Lwów and moved to the place in the proximity of oilbearing areas – Gorlice, where he leased a pharmacy. He continued working on the development of the process of obtaining kerosene.
In together with Tytus Trzecieski he founded the first in the world oil company which started to produce and use oil in Bóbrka near Krosno.
As a result of obtaining a significant amount of oil, Łukasiewicz founded in in Ulaszowice the first oil distillery on the Polish land.
Łukasiewicz continuously worked on development of crude oil refining which resulted in awards for oil products exhibited on exhibitions in Jasło, Lwów and Wiedeń.
In the territory of the oil field in Bóbrka he improved the technology of drilling holes to obtain crude oil.
He introduced a manual drilling rig (), and later he used steam engines to drive drilling rigs.
He also attempted to establish a mining school in Bóbrka.
Łukasiewicz was a man of outstanding character qualities. He supported financially national and liberation movements, he built schools, churches, roads and bridges.
Łukasiewicz was a head of the National Kerosene Association. He established in Chorkówka a lace school for girls which was run by his wife. In the oil field in Bóbrka he created so called „Kasa Bracka”, that is an insurance system for its employees.
In Pope Pius IX gave him the title of a papal chamberlain and awarded him with the Order of St.
Gregory the Great for charitable activity.
Ignacy Łukasiewicz died of pneumonia in Chorkówka on 7 January , and he was buried on parish cemetery in Zręcin.