Komorowski - Menge, Edward John
Professor. Psychobiologist and Racial Psychologist.
Edward John Komorow Psychologist. Born at Fon du Lac, Wis., June 25, 1882. Son of Theodore Edward and Josephine (Warzburger) Komorowski Menge. Married Jessica B. Crofoot of Fon du Lac, Wis., Sept. 16, 1903. Educated in parochial and public schools, and universities in Arizona, Dallas, Wisconsin and Chicago. He received degrees: A.B., 1914; M.A., 1915; Ph.D., 1916: M.Sc., 1917: Hon. D.Sc. De Paul University. 1925. Professor of Biology University of Dallas, 1917-19; professor of Biology, Marquette University, 1919-35; professor of Biology, College of St. Francis, Joliet, Ill., 1935-37. Awarded Commander's Cross "Polonia Restituta" by Poland in 1933. Corresponding and honorary member Institute Litteraire and Artistique de France; International Faculty of Sciences of Great Britain; Sociedade de Medicina e Cirurgia do Rio de Janeiro; Asociacion Cooperadora de Concordia Americana of Argentina; Academician, National Academy of Natural Sciences de Chile; Sociedad de Odontolojica de Chile; and similar organizations in Spain, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela, Equador, Colombia and Puerto Rico. Vice-consul of Costa Rica for Wisconsin. International Guest-Lecturer to the Learning Societies and National Universities of the leading South American Countries in 1927. Similar appointment to the National Universities of Poland for 1933, and Chairman of Committee selecting American students for international Scholarships awarded by the Union of the World's Polish Cultural SocietIes. Author of "The Beginnings of Science," "Backgrounds for Social Workers," "General and Professional Biology," "Introductory Embryology and Comparative Anatomy" (The latter two books having been the only college text books on biological subjects by an American author to be chosen for the newly restored University of Louvain Library in 1925 when a selection of world's best books was made.) "The Laws of Living Things" (Selected from the world's textbooks as the national text by a foreign land, the government itself undertaking its translation and printing.), "Laboratory Studies," "Demonstrations and Problems in Biology." "A Survey of National Trends in Biology," "Jobs for the College Graduate in Science," "Your Child from Twelve to Twenty-two," "Biological Work as a Career," "A Critiqtie of Present-day Biophilosophy" (pronounced by Medical Review of Reviews as one of the most important monographs ever published in any contemporary periodical and selected by the first recipient of the Gold Medal of the International Faculty of Science of Great Britain as the finest piece of scientific writing of the year and recommended for the next succeeding Medal.), "Just What
the Latin Thinks of Us," "What the World at Large and America in Particular Owes to Poland," "Assumptions of Science How Does Science Know That," The Jewish Problem - a Diagnosis and American, British and South American Journals.From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943