Maurycy Trybulski
Maurycy Cyril Trybulski was a Polish academic and animal breeder. He is remembered as the founder of the first kennel club in Poland, and as president of the Central Committee for Poultry Breeding in Poland from 1922 to the Second World War.
Trybulski was also a prolific writer and left behind numerous articles and texts, considered important for the study of animal breeding in Poland.
Biography
Early life and education
Trybulski was born in 1883 in Jastrzębia, in central-eastern Poland, to Matylda Polak and Jan Trybulski. He attended the Agricultural Institute of Puławy and, from 1905, continued his studies in St. Petersburg. Upon graduation he was assigned to work in Russia as a civil servant, first in Ufa, a town beyond the Ural Mountains, then in Kaluga. For some time he also worked in Moscow, where he created a local society of cattle breeders.1920s and 1930s
Following the Treaty of Riga in 1921, Trybulski was among the first Poles to return to their homeland. The same year he became president of the Central Committee for Poultry Breeding in Poland. From 1921 he was editor in chief of the illustrated biweekly "Polski Drób" and, in the following years, he collaborated closely with the monthly magazines "Hodowiec Gołębi Pocztowych" and "Zagroda Wzorowa". During the 1920s and 1930s he was a lecturer at the Agricultural University of Warsaw faculty, and the Puławy Institute of Agriculture. At the same time he served as a judge in many national breeding competitions in the poultry, pigeons, dogs, cats and fur animals sections. His intense activity in the field of animal breeding, both in Poland and in Europe, earned him numerous awards including his appointment as an honorary member of the Czechoslovak Exhibition Committee in 1926, and of the Society of Pigeon Breeders of Lviv in February 1928.In 1934 he was one of the founders and president of the first Polish kennel club. Together with other members of the club, Trybulski created the magazine Pies Rasowy i jego hodowla w Polsce. In the same year he also supported the establishment of the Club of Breeders and Admirers of Purebred Cats, which started the first national register of pedigree cats in Poland.