Stefan Borowiecki (1881-1937) - the founder of the Department of Neurology at the Poznan University

• Autorzy: Magowska A.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The presentation aims to describe the life and works of Professor Stefan Borowiecki (1881–1937), a typical representative of the fi rst generation of Polish neurologists, well educated in both neurology and psychiatry at Swiss, German, Russian and French universities. As a young doctor, he took a job at the hospital for mental patients in Kochanówka near Łódź. Next, he rounded out his medical education at the outpatient’s clinic run by Professor Jan Pilz in Kraków, the anatomical laboratory run by Prof. K. Monakow, the hospital wards run by Dr. J. Babiński in Paris, and some hospitals in Rheinau, Berlin, and Zurich. For some years he run a ward for nervous and mental diseases at the St. Lazarus’s Hospital in Kraków. From 1921 to his premature death, he had taken the Chair of Neurology and Psychiatry at the Poznan University. He carried out research on brain anatomy, congenital brain defects, psychoanalysis, and mechanism of persecution. References: Public Record Offi ce in Warsaw and Archive of the University of Medical Sciences in Poznań, S. Borowiecki’s records

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
• Rocznik: 2009
• Tom: 69
• Numer: 3
• Opis fizyczny: p.374

Twórcy

autor

Magowska A.

• Department of the History of Medical Sciences, University of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poznan, Poland