PMID: 11625497Oct 20, 2001Paper

Edward Grzegorzewski, graduate of the Warsaw University's medical department and first rektor of the medical academy at Gdansk

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Z Machaliński

Abstract

Born on October 4, 1906, in Tobolsk (Siberia), Edward Grezegorzewski was the son of an ophthamologist and descendant of a Polish exile to Siberia. Grzegorzewski came to Poland in 1922. He finished his secondary education in Lwow and then studied medicine (1925-1931), first in Lwow and then in Warsaw. He received the degree of doctor of medicine at the Medical Department of the Warsaw University on July 4, 1931. After his internship, he began work as a research assistant at the State Office of Hygiene in Warsaw (January 1, 1932). From August 1932 until January 1934 he was on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship in the United States. After his return to Poland, he held a number of exectuive positions in the Health Department of the Warsaw City Council, the State Office of Hygiene, and the State School of Hygiene. At the same time he conducted his own research work, concentrating on the socio-hygienic facets of common epidemic diseases and on combatting such disease by means of large-scale action. He was planning to defend his Habilitationsschrift in 1939, but the outbreak of war interfered with his plans. During the German occupation he first worked as specialist in fighting epidemics in Warsaw, and then as a ward doctor at a san...Continue Reading

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