Józef Brudziński

Józef Brudziński

Józef Brudziński (Josef von Brudzinski, born January 26, 1874 in Bolewo / Plock , † December 18, 1917 in Warsaw ) was a Polish pediatrician .

Józef Brudziński studied medicine in Dorpat and Moscow , where he graduated in 1897. He turned to paediatrics and was a student of Maciej Jakubowski (* 1838) in Cracow , later he worked with Theodor Escherich in Graz , as well as with Jacques-Joseph Grancher (1843-1907), Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan (1858-1942) and Victor Henri Hutinel (1849–1933) in Paris . In 1903 he was appointed to the Anne-Marie Children's Hospital in Łódź , an institution that he turned into a hospital . In 1910, Brudziński moved to Warsaw, where, with the help of the philanthropist Zofia Szlenkier , he was able to build a children's hospital according to his own plans. After the German occupation of Poland he was politically active and campaigned for the re-establishment of a Polish university in Warsaw , of which he was the inaugural rector in 1915.

Brudziński's most important works concerned the intestinal flora , reflexes and the prevention of childhood infections in hospitals. Different reflexes in meningitis bear his name:

• Brudzinski's sign : reflex flexion in the knee joint with passive flexion in the neck
• Brudziński's cheek phenomenon: pressure on the cheek below the cheekbones causes the forearm to lift and bend
• Brudziński's reflex: passive flexion of one knee leads to reflex flexion in the mutual knee and hip joint; conversely, a forced extension of the lower leg leads to extension on the opposite side
• Brudziński's symphysis signs: pressure on the symphysis leads to reflex flexion of the leg in the knee and hip joint, as well as abduction

In 1908, Brudziński founded the first Polish pediatric journal, Przegląd Pedyatryczny .

Web links / sources

• Jósef Brudziński at whonamedit.com (English)