Józef Brudziński

Józef Polikarp Brudziński (1874 to 1917) was a Polish pediatrician, born in the village of Bolewo in what is now Mława County. He studied medicine in Tartu and Moscow, moved to Kraków in 1897 to train in pediatrics, and then worked under Theodor Escherich in Graz and with several leading French pediatricians in Paris. In 1903 he practiced at the Anne-Marie Kinderhospital in Łódź, and in 1910 he moved to Warsaw, where he designed a children's hospital with financial help from the philanthropist Sophie Szlenker. He helped re-establish a Polish university in Warsaw, becoming its rector in 1915, and in 1908 he founded the first Polish journal of pediatrics, Przegląd Pediatryczny. He is remembered for his work on preventing infectious diseases in children and for studies of the neurological signs that accompany meningitis; four eponymous signs bear his name, among them the neck sign and the cheek phenomenon. He died in 1917 at the age of 43 from nephrotic syndrome. This entry records what the source states about his career and is not medical advice.