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Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
The Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University ( LNMU, , ), formerly known as the Lviv State Medical Institute, earlier the Faculty of Medicine of the Lvov University, John Casimir University and, before that, Faculty of Medicine of the Lvov University, Francis I University — is one of the oldest and biggest medical universities in List of medical universities in Ukraine, Ukraine. LNMU begins from the Medical Faculty of Lviv University, which was opened on November 16, 1784, according to the privilege of the Austrian emperor Josef II. The medical school is named after King Daniel of Galicia, the historical founder of the city in 1256 AD. In 2009 University celebrated its 225 anniversary. History The history of Lviv Medical University goes back to 1661, when on 20 January the Jesuit Collegium in Lviv by the privilege of Polish King John II Casimir acquired the status of academy. It consisted of four departments and was awarded the title of the Lvov University, university. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public University
A public university, state university, or public college is a university or college that is State ownership, owned by the state or receives significant funding from a government. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape. In contrast a private university is usually owned and operated by a private corporation (not-for-profit or for profit). Both types are often regulated, but to varying degrees, by the government. Africa Algeria In Algeria, public universities are a key part of the education system, and education is considered a right for all citizens. Access to these universities requires passing the Baccalaureate (Bac) exam, with each institution setting its own grade requirements (out of 20) for different majors and programs. Notable public universities include the Algiers 1 University, University of Algiers, Oran 1 University, University of Oran, and Constantin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest universities in continuous operation in the world. The university grounds contain the Kraków Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university has been viewed as a vanguard of Polish culture as well as a significant contributor to the intellectual heritage of Europe. The campus of the Jagiellonian University is centrally located within the Kraków, city of Kraków. The university consists of thirteen main faculties, in addition to three faculties composing the Jagiellonian University Medical College, Collegium Medicum. It employs roughly 4,000 academics and provides education to more than 35,000 students who study in 166 fields. The main language of instruction is Polish, although around 30 degrees are offer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Biernacki
Edmund Faustyn Biernacki (19 December 1866 in Opoczno – 29 December 1911 in Lwów) was a Polish physician. Biernacki was the first one to note a relationship between the sedimentation rate of red blood cells in a human blood sample and the general condition of the organism. This method, known as the Biernacki Reaction, is used worldwide to assess erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), which is one of the major blood tests. References See also * Pathology * List of pathologists A list of people notable in the field of pathology. A * John Abercrombie, Scottish physician, neuropathologist and philosopher. * Maude Abbott (1869–1940), Canadian pathologist, one of the earliest women graduated in medicine, expert in c ... 1866 births 1911 deaths 19th-century Polish physicians Polish pathologists Polish academics Polish neurologists Philosophers of science People from Opoczno Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery Scientists from Congress Poland Emigrants from the Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Budzyński
Stanisław Budzyński (Latin Stanislaus Budzinius) was a Polish nobleman, secretary to John a Lasco and Francis Lismaninus. His letters and writings survive in manuscript.Antitrinitarian biography: or sketches of the lives and writings Robert Wallace Stanislaus Budzinius, ( Polon. Budzynski,) was amanuensis to John a Lasco and Francis Lismaninus, and afterwards assistant to Jerome ...It was the fate of all Budzinius's writings to remain in manuscript, although a copious use has been made by ... Of the principal facts recorded in it Budzinius himself was an eye-witness. Besides the above History, Budzinius wrote 1... References Polish Unitarians Amanuenses {{Poland-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Weigl
Rudolf Stefan Jan Weigl (2 September 1883 – 11 August 1957) was a Polish biologist, physician and inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine each year between 1930 and 1934, and from 1936 to 1939. Weigl worked during the Holocaust to save the lives of countless Jews by developing the vaccine for typhus and providing shelter to protect those suffering under the Nazi Germans in occupied Poland. For his contributions, he was named a Righteous Among the Nations in 2003. Life Weigl was born in Prerau, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Austrian parents, of Austro-Moravian descent. When he was a child, his father died in a bicycle accident. His mother, Elisabeth Kroesel, married a Polish secondary-school teacher, Józef Trojnar. Weigl was raised in Jasło, Poland. Although he was a native German speaker, when the family moved to Poland, he adopted the Polish language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakub Karol Parnas
Jakub Karol Parnas, also known as Yakov Oskarovich Parnas (; January 16, 1884 – January 29, 1949) was a prominent Polish–Soviet biochemist who contributed to the discovery of the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway, together with Otto Fritz Meyerhof and Gustav Embden. He became a Soviet activist after the annexation of Western Ukraine in 1939. He was arrested during the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee affair in 1949 and died in the prison, reportedly of heart attack. Biography Parnas was born in 1884 in Tarnopol, at that time part of Austria-Hungary, in the province of Galicia (now split between Poland and Ukraine), to Jewish parents. He graduated from the Königlich Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in 1904. From 1920 to 1941, he was head of the Institute of the Medical Chemistry at Lviv University. He traveled across Europe, collaborating with universities in Cambridge, Naples, Strasbourg, Ghent and Zürich. He was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni Cieszyński
Antoni Cieszyński (31 May 1882 in Oels ( Oleśnica), Silesia, Germany – 4 July 1941 in Lwów, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...) was a Polish physician, dentist and surgeon. Cieszyński was a professor and head of the Institute of Stomatology at Lviv University. He became the editor and publisher of ''Polska Dentystyka'' in 1930; the journal was renamed ''Polska Stomatologia'' (Polish Stomatology) and ''Słowiańska Stomatologia'' (Slavic Stomatology). Among his contributions to dentistry are the rules of isometry that allow for the bisecting angle to accurately reproduce dimensions in x-radiology, and extraoral anæsthetising techniques. During the WW2 in 1941 Cieszyński with a number of other Polish university professors was summarily executed by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwik Rydygier
Ludwik Antoni Rydygier (21 August 1850 – 25 June 1920) was a Polish surgeon, professor of medicine, rector of the University of Lwów and Brigadier General of the Polish Army. He was one of the most distinguished Polish and worldwide known surgeons in the late 19th and early 20th century. Biography Early life and education Born in Dusocin (then officially ''Dossoczyn'') near Grudziądz (then officially ''Graudenz'') in the Prussian Partition of Poland, a territory annexed by Prussia during the Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century. He was one of 13 children of Karol and Elżbieta Riedigier. Since childhood he accented his Polish origin and identity. He attended the ''Collegium Marianum'' in Pelplin, and between 1859 and 1861 he attended gymnasium in Chojnice (then officially ''Konitz''), then also the gymnasium in Chełmno (then officially ''Kulm''), where he graduated in 1869. In years 1869–1874 he studied medical sciences at the University of Greifswald. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Beck (physiologist)
Adolf Abraham Beck (1 January 1863, Kraków – August 1942, Lviv) was a Polish physician and professor of physiology at the University of Lviv. He is considered one of the pioneers of electroencephalography (EEG). Life and career He was born on 1 January 1863, in Kraków, Galicia (Central Europe), Galicia, into a poor Jewish family. During his academic career, Beck supported himself as a tutor, private tutor. Upon graduating with distinction from the gymnasium of his native city in 1884, he entered the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1888, while still a medical student, Beck gained the prize of the university by a paper on the excitability of a nerve, afterward published under the title, "O pobudliwości różnych miejsc tego samego nerwu" (On the Excitability of a Nerve at Different Points). In 1890 he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine, M.D., and in the same year published the results of his extensive research on electrical processes in the brain. His papers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Kadyi
Henryk Karol Klemens Kadyi (23 May 1851 – 25 October 1912) was a Polish comparative anatomist and histologist from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He made significant contributions to the study of the thyroid gland and the vascular system of the spinal cord. Kadyi was also notable for pioneering the use of heavy metal salts, such as uranyl acetate, for staining nerve and brain tissues. Biography Kadyi was born in Przemyśl into an intellectual family. His father, Ludwik Kadyi, was a clerk, and his mother was Klementyna. His brother Józef became a physician, while another brother, Juliusz, served as a court counselor (Hofrat). Kadyi attended the Lviv Gymnasium before beginning medical studies in 1870 at the Jagiellonian University. He later transferred to the University of Vienna, where he graduated in 1875. From 1873 to 1875, he served as an anatomy demonstrator at the Josephinum under Karl Langer. His early research focused on the venous system of the arm. He also trained in o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish–Soviet War
The Polish–Soviet War (14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, following World War I and the Russian Revolution. After the collapse of the Central Powers and the Armistice of 11 November 1918, Vladimir Lenin's Soviet Russia annulled the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and moved forces westward to reclaim the ''Ober Ost'' regions abandoned by the Germans. Lenin viewed the newly independent Poland as a critical route for spreading communist revolutions into Europe. Meanwhile, Polish leaders, including Józef Piłsudski, aimed to restore Poland's First Partition of Poland, pre-1772 borders and secure the country's position in the region. Throughout 1919, Polish forces occupied much of present-day Lithuania and Belarus, emerging victorious in the Polish–Ukrainian War. However, Soviet forces regained strength after their victories in the Russian Civil War, and Symon Petliura, lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
