Tadeusz Browicz

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Tadeusz Browicz (born September 15, 1847 in Lemberg , † March 20, 1928 in Cracow ) was a Polish pathologist .

He first studied medicine at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he received his doctorate in 1873. He then worked for the pathologist Alfred Biesiadecki (1839–1889) as an assistant and was then able to complete his habilitation in 1875 . From 1880 to 1919 he held a chair in anatomical pathology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In the years 1894/1895 he was also rector of this university.

Browicz made various contributions to medical research and described a. a. In 1874 the first bacterium to cause typhus , which was later named Salmonella typhi . In 1898 he was the first to demonstrate the correct function of the so-called Kuppfer stellate cells in the liver as specialized macrophages. They are therefore also known as Kuppfer-Browicz cells, particularly in the Anglo-Saxon region. He also undertook research into the cause of jaundice , liver cancer and various heart muscle diseases. Finally, in 1905, he published a well-known medical dictionary in Polish.

Publications

Most of his writings were only printed in Polish.

  • About intravascular cells in the blood capillaries of the Leberacini . Separately printed from the Gazette of the Academy of Sciences in Cracow 1899. pp. 6–8.

literature

  • R. Szymańska, M. Schmidt-Pospuła: Z historii badań Tadeusza Browicza (1847–1928) and Karola Kupfera (1829–1902) nad komórkami siateczkowo-śródbłonkowymi wątroby. Archiwum Historii Medycyny 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrzej Śródka, Ryszard W. Gryglewski, Wojciech Szczepański: Browicz or Kupffer Cells? (PDF; 105 kB) Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, Vol. 57/4, Kraków 2006, 183-185, ISSN  1233-9687
personal data
SURNAME Browicz, Tadeusz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1928
Place of death Krakow