Nowicki was born in
Jabłonów in eastern
Galicia. He attended the local
gymnasium (secondary school) and entered the
University of Lwów in 1848 to study law, but political problems forced him to quit those studies. He then taught in the
countryside of eastern Galicia (1852–63) at
Brody, later in Płotycz near
Tarnopol, then found an opportunity to do research at the
University of Vienna and in 1863 received a doctorate from the
University of Lviv and became a professor of
zoology at
Kraków University (1863–90). In 1873 he collected specimens for the
Dzieduszycki museum in Lviv and was inducted into the
Kraków-based
Academy of Learning. Also in 1873, he co-founded the
Tatras Society (
Towarzystwo Tatrzańskie). In 1879 he founded the National Fishing Society (
Krajowe Towarzystwo Rybackie) and through it worked on fishing zones, fishing regulations, and stocking of game fishes. His greatest academic achievements were in
entomology,
ichthyology and
ornithology. Nowicki was the initiator of, and driving force behind, the Physiographic Commission (
Komisja Fizjograficzna) of the
Academy of Learning, and was a member of many other learned societies. ==See also==