Wiktor Ormicki

Wiktor Ormicki (born Wiktor Rudolf Nusbaum; 1 February 1898 – 17 September 1941) was a Polish geographer and cartographer, and a university professor.

A specialist in economical geography and demography, he served at various posts in the Jagiellonian University, Free Polish University, Higher Trade School of Kraków and Lwów University. He was the author of a major study, ''Rozwój polskiej myśli geograficzno-gospodarczej 1866–1929'' (1932).

In 1924, he changed his last name to Ormicki. He was of Jewish descent. Arrested by the Germans during World War II in Sonderaktion Krakau, he was murdered in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Provided by Wikipedia