Władysław Mazurkiewicz (physician)

Władysław Mazurkiewicz (1871–1933) was a Polish physician and professor at the University of Warsaw.

Władysław Mazurkiewicz 1928

In May 1901, together with Aleksander Sulkiewicz, he helped Józef Piłsudski escape from a mental hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia, to which Piłsudski had been transferred from the Warsaw Citadel after feigning mental illness.[1][2]

In 1920, he was appointed Director of the University of Warsaw's Pharmacy Division of the Faculty of Medicine.[3] He chaired the national committee which produced the first edition of the Polish Pharmacopoeia.[4]

References
  1. Lenkiewicz, Antoni (2019). Jozef Pilsudski : hero of Poland. Point Pleasant, NJ: Winged Hussar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-950423-17-0. OCLC 1132380202.
  2. Jędrzejewicz, Wacław (1982). Piłsudski, a life for Poland. Wanda Piłsudska, Zbigniew Brzezinski. New York: Hippocrene Books. p. 30. ISBN 0-88254-633-3. OCLC 9143517.
  3. "History | Medical University of Warsaw". www.wum.edu.pl. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
  4. Digest of Comments on The Pharmacopœia of the United States of America and on the National Formulary for the Calendar Year ... 1905-1922 (PDF). Bulletin (Hygienic Laboratory (U.S.)), no. 49. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1926. p. 132.


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