Search for: [Description = "The photo depicts a man in round wire frame eyeglasses with a well\-groomed moustache and beard. The man is dressed in a dark jacket and a white shirt with a bowtie. According to the photo’s owner, it is a photocopy from the original 1865 portrait of dr Juliusz Roger – a court physician to the duke of Racibórz in Rudy k. Rybnika. Dr J. Roger came to Rudy in 1845 as the duke’s court physician responsible for fighting a cholera epidemic. Apart from medicine he was interested in Silesian etymology and folklore. He collected and edited 545 Silesian folk songs in Polish and published them under the following title “Pieśni ludu polskiego w Górnym Szląsku z muzyką” \[Songs of the Polish people in Upper Silesia with music\] in 1863, Ed.. H. Skutch \/ Schletter in Wrocław. In the history of Silesia dr J. Roger is one of the most important collectors and folklorists in Silesia. The original portrait is in a private collection. It is the only surviving portrait of Roger"]

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