Odo Bujwid

Odo Bujwid (1857 to 1942) was a Polish bacteriologist, born in Vilnius and described by his Polish biography as the first Polish bacteriologist and a pioneer of hygiene and preventive health. He studied medicine at the Imperial University of Warsaw and trained in bacteriology in Berlin under Robert Koch and in Paris at the institute of Louis Pasteur. In Warsaw he founded the first rabies prevention institute in Poland and a station for testing foodstuffs. In 1893 the medical faculty of the Jagiellonian University offered him the newly created chair of hygiene, and he moved to Krakow, where he opened the second Pasteur vaccination institute in the country and was one of the first Polish scientists to produce therapeutic vaccines, including against rabies. At his house in Krakow he later ran a works making sera and vaccines that supplied typhus vaccine to the Polish population during the German occupation. He died in Krakow in 1942.