Felicjan Kępiński

Felicjan Kępiński (29 April 1885, in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland – 8 April 1966, in Warsaw) was a Polish astronomer.

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In 1903 he graduated from the government secondary school in Piotrków Trybunalski, later the Bolesław I the Brave High School in Piotrków Trybunalski. In 1905 he took part in a students’ strike. As part of this boycott of Russian universities, he chose to study abroad. He studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Leipzig (1905–1906), the University of Göttingen (1906–1909) and the University of Berlin (1909–1912).