Professor Bohdan Swiderski (1892-1943) was one of the most outstanding Polish tectonicians of the Carpathians. In 1911-1917 he studied in Switzerland at Prof. Maurice Lugeon, a famous Alpine geologist, and was a collaborator of the Swiss Geological Commission. From 1919, Bohdan Swiderski was interested in the Carpathian geology, especially in studying the Eastern Flysch Carpathians, poorly known at those times. As the first researcher in the Carpathians he applied a quantitative tectonic analysis to determine the relationship between the folding style and lithology, carried out geomorphological studies, and was an expert in petroleum exploration. He was a collaborator and an employee of the Polish Geological Institute, a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the University of Poznań. After the outbreak of World War II, Bohdan Swiderski was imprisoned in the German concentration camp Auschwitz. He died suddenly in 1943, shortly after his release from the camp.
The Teisseyre family is a very meritorious family in Polish geology. Senior Wawrzyniec Teisseyre (1860–1939), cartographer, tectonicist, petroleum geologist and paleontologist, first determined the course of the SW boundary of the East European Platform, subsequently confirmed by magnetic studies of German geophysicist A.J.H. Tornquist. This important continental-scale feature has a character of deep fractures and is called today the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone. Wawrzyniec's son, Henryk Teisseyre (1903–1975), was an eminent Carpathian geologist. After World War II, he was the co-founder of the Wroc³aw centre of Polish geology and the creator of Wroc³aw school of tectonics. Significant roles in the geology were played by Henryk's sons: prematurely died Juliusz (1933–1991) and Andrzej Karol (1938–1991). Henryk's nephew, Roman Teisseyre (born 1929), is a world-class seismologist, researcher in physics of the Earth interior.
Louis Horwitz (1875–1943), a Polish geologist of Jewish origin. Representative of the Alpine School of Geology of Prof. Maurice Lugeon in Lausanne. He was engaged in geological mapping in the Fribourg Alps. From 1919, he was associated with the Polish Geological Institute in Warsaw. Louis Horwitz conducted a detailed geological study of the Pieniny Klippen Belt, an orogenic suture zone between the Inner and Outer Carpathians. His research has contributed significantly to broadening knowledge of the stratigraphy of rocks composing the structure. Simultaneously, he was conducting mapping work of oil-bearing areas of the Eastern Flysch Carpathians. During the German occupation of Poland (after 1939), he continued research in the Pieniny Mts. Murdered by the Nazis in 1943.
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