Andrzej Wiktor

Wiktor was the youngest of four siblings; their father was a landowner but the family were expelled from their land after the communist take-over. His eldest brother, Józef, also became a professor of biology. Andrzej married Jadwiga Kwiecińska in 1954. She died in 1997, and in 2002 he married Hanna Mizgajska. Both his wives were parasitologists and his daughter an anthropologist.

Andrzej Wiktor (1931–2018) was a Polish taxonomist of terrestrial slugs. His considerable research output includes a number of comprehensive reviews that document the slug faunas of particular countries or revise the taxonomy of whole families. He worked for almost all of his career at the Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław in Poland.

Andrzej Hubert Wiktor was born 4 February 1931 in Nowa Wieś, near Rzeszów, in south-east Poland. He studied biology at Poznań University and then at the University of Wrocław. After completing his doctorate in 1962 while employed at the Wrocław Medical University, the rest of his career was based at the Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, of which he became Director in 1980. He also held various other prestigious posts in the university and in other academic organisations (e.g. President of the Polish Zoological Society, Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences; full list at ), and only his known opposition to the communist party prevented his appointment as university Rector. He continued his research past his formal retirement in 2002, with his final paper appearing in 2017. He died on the last day of 2018.