- Ignacy Żagiell
Ignacy Żagiell (
February 1 1826 ,Kierpszyszki orPowiryn , Vilna Province -21 June 1891 ,Warsaw ) was a physician, traveler and Polish-language writer.Life
Żagiell served as an army physician in
Great Britain from 1859, and as a civilian physician inTurkey from 1864.He travelled in
India ,Egypt and theNear East .Notable works
* "Historia starożytnego Egiptu" (History of Ancient Egypt, 1880);
* "Podróż historyczna po Abisynii, Adel, Szoa, Nubii, u źródeł Nilu..." (1884; some of the descriptions in this book are probably not authentic).ee also
* "Pharaoh" (novel, by
Bolesław Prus , which drew from Żagiell's "History of Ancient Egypt").References
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