Julian Fabiański

Julian Fabiański was a Polish engineer and professor of oil drilling and extraction. Born in Krakow on 2 January 1866, he studied at the Mining Academy in Leoben from 1886 and then spent 27 years as an engineer and technical director at oil wells in Galicia, in Hungary and in Italy. From 1910 he was director of the joint stock company that ran the Boryslaw oil fields. In 1917 he began lecturing at the Lwow Polytechnic, where from 1919 he directed the mining chair, served as dean in 1920 to 1921 and was rector in the academic years 1922 to 1923 and 1923 to 1924. He was given the title of honorary professor of the mechanical faculty in 1936 and the Commander Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1929. He died in Lwow on 23 December 1943 and is buried in the Lychakiv cemetery. He is included here as a leading engineer of the Galician oil fields.