M.Sc.: 1947 • Jagiellonian Univ., Kraków Ph.D.: 1949 • Jagiellonian Univ., Kraków. Title of Professor of Biology: 1962

1948-1954 employed in the Department of Animal Psychology and Ethology, Jagiellonian University. 1955-1978 and 1983-1988 in the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals. 1960-1978 and 1986-1988 Director of this Institute. 1978-1982 professor of zoology of the University of Oran, Algeria.

Correspondent member (1971), later full member (1986) of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Full member (1990) of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994 - 2000 its President.

Kazimierz Kowalski was active in mammalogy, especially palaeontology of small mammals; he contributed also to the faunistics, zoogeography and taphonomy of rodents.

KOWALSKI K. 1951-1954. Polish caves. 3 vols. Państwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne, Warszawa. 466+186+192 pp. [In Polish, with French summary]

KOWALSKI K. 1956. Insectivores, bats and rodents from the early Pliocene bone breccia from Podlesice near Kroczyce (Poland). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 1: 331-394.

KOWALSKI K., LI CHUAN KUEI. 1963. Remarks on the fauna of bats (Chiroptera) from locality 1 at Choukoutien. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 7: 144-150.

KOWALSKI K. 1971. Ssaki. Zarys teriologii. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa, 642 pp. [Polish edition] 1976. Mammals. An outline of theriology ibid., 454 pp. [English edition] 1981. Manual de teriologia. H. Blume, Madrid, 532 pp. [Spanish edition]

KOWALSKI K. 1974. Middle Oligocene rodents from Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica, 30: 147-178.

KOWALSKI K., HASEGAWA Y. 1976. Quaternary rodents from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (Tokyo), 2: 31-66.

KOWALSKI M., RZEBIK-KOWALSKA B. 1991. Mammals of Algeria. Ossolineum, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków, 370 pp.

KOWALSKI K. 1995. Taphonomy of bats (Chiroptera). Geobios, M.S., 18: 251-256.

KOWALSKI K. 1997. Rodents of the Miocene locality Bełchatów in Poland. In: J.-P. Aguilar, S. Legendre and J. Michaux Eds.: Actes du Congrés BiochroM'97. Mémoires et Travaux de l'Institut de Montpellier de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 21: 697-703.

KOWALSKI K. 2000. Der pleistozäne Ölsumpf bei Starunia, Ukraine. In: G. Pinna, ed. Europäische Fossillagerstätten, Springer, 232-236.

RZEBIK-KOWALSKA B., KOWALSKI K., 2001. The northernmost fossil locality of fruit bats (Megachiroptera, Mammalia) in the Miocene of Bełchatów (Poland). Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 44(1): 59-63.

KOWALSKI K., 2001. Pleistocene Rodents of Europe. Folia Quaternaria, 72: 1-389.

KOWALSKI K. 2003. Lemmings (Lemmini, Rodenia) of the Palaearctic and their evolution. Advances in Vertebrate Palaeontology. Bucarest, pp. 93 - 96.

PUCEK Z. 1996. Kazimierz Kowalski: a biographical sketch. In: A. NADACHOWSKI & L. WERDELIN (eds): Papers in mammal palaeontology honoring Kazimierz KOWALSKI. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 39: IX-XI.

Anonymous. 1996. Bibliography of Kazimierz Kowalski. In: A. NADACHOWSKI & L. WERDELIN (eds.): Papers in mammal palaeontology honoring Kazimierz KOWALSKI. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 39: XVII-XXVIII.

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