Roman Januszkiewicz

Roman Januszkiewicz was a Polish engineer who became deputy director of the Municipal Electrical Works in Lwow. Born in Warsaw on 10 April 1873, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Warsaw and then electrical engineering at the technical universities of Darmstadt and Karlsruhe, and practised in Berlin at the Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft. From 1902 he worked in Warsaw and from 1905 in Lwow, where he took a managerial post at the city power station on Persenkowka in 1906 and from 1909 ran its newly organised cable office. He was a member of the Polytechnic Society from 1916, served as its treasurer and became an honorary member in 1923. He also sat on the supervisory boards of the Oil Bank and of the Gazolina company. He died in Lwow on 28 January 1924. He is included here as an early manager of a municipal electric supply in Galicia.