In 1847, during the Great Irish Famine, Paweł Strzelecki conducted one of the first systematic field surveys of hunger and malnutrition among Irish children. His reports turned starvation into numbers that governments could no longer ignore.
Full essay (in Polish): Paweł Strzelecki in Ireland 1847. How to feed children when the state hesitates.
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This is the gentleman who named Mt Kościuszko in Australia.
A great man. I visited his grave recently in Poznań. He deserves to be more known
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