Ignacy Żagiell

Ignacy Żagiell (1 February 1826, Kierpszyszki or Powiryn, Vilna Province - 21 June 1891, Warsaw) was a physician, traveler and Polish-language writer.

Life
Żagiell served as an army physician in Great Britain from 1859, and as a civilian physician in Turkey from 1864.

He travelled in India, Egypt and the Near East.

Notable works

 * Historia starożytnego Egiptu (History of Ancient Egypt, 1880);
 * Podróż historyczna po Abisynii, Adel, Szoa, Nubii, u źródeł Nilu... (1884; some of the descriptions in this book are probably not authentic).