Tadeusz Browicz

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

He 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 then could habilitate 1875. From 1880-1919 he held a chair in anatomic pathology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In the years 1894/1895, he was also rector of this university.

Browicz made ​​several contributions to medical research and described, inter alia, 1874 was the first bacterium as the cause of typhoid fever, which was later named as Salmonella typhi. In 1898 he demonstrated the correct operation of the so-called Kupffer stellate cells of the liver as specialized macrophages first. They are therefore particularly referred to in the Anglo- Saxon countries as Kupffer cells Browicz. Next he undertook research into the cause of the jaundice, liver cancer and various heart muscle diseases. Finally, he published in 1905 a well-known medical dictionary in Polish.

Publications

Most of his writings were printed only in Polish.

• About intravascular cells in the blood capillaries of the Leberacini. Off-print from the Gazette of the Academy of Sciences in Cracow 1899. Pp. 6-8.