Engineer: 1953 Cracow Polytechnic
M.Sc.: 1958 • Jagiellonian University
Ph.D.: 1961 • Jagiellonian University
Habilitation: 1966 • Jagiellonian University
Title of Professor: 1973

1954 employed in the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of Polish Academy of Sciences (then Cracow Branch of the Zoological Institute in Warsaw). Retired in 2003.

1988-1997 Director of the Institute.

Recipient of many prizes and awards, among others of Polish State Award, Secretary of Polish Academy of Sciences

Active in entomology, especially in the systematics of Lepidoptera, chiefly Tortricidae.

RAZOWSKI J. 1959. European species of Cnephasiini. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 10(3): 199-343, 14 pls.

RAZOWSKI J. 1965. Palaearctic Cnephasiini. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 15(8): 341-399.

RAZOWSKI J. 1966. World fauna of Tortricini. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Kraków. 576 pp., 41 pls.

RAZOWSKI J. 1970. Cochylidae. In: Microlepidoptera Palaearctica. Wien. 528 pp., 161 pls.

RAZOWSKI J. 1973-1991. Motyle (Lepidoptera) Polski [Lepidoptera of Poland]. General part - Tortricidae, 8 vols. Monografie Fauny Polski, Kraków.

RAZOWSKI J. 1984. Tortricini. In: Microlepidoptera Palaearctica. Karlsruhe. 376 pp., 138 pls.

RAZOWSKI J. 1987-1998. The genera of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). Parts I-III. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 32(11): 141-355, 32(7): 107-328, 41(2): 227-281.

RAZOWSKI J. 1996. Słownik morfologii owadów [Glossary of morphology of insects]. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Kraków. 431 pp.

RAZOWSKI J. 2001. Die Tortriciden Mitteleuropas. F. Slamka, Bratislava. 319 pp.

RAZOWSKI J. 2002. Tortricidae of Europe. 1. Tortricinae and Chlidanotinae. F. Slamka, Bratislava. 247 pp.