Tadeusz Browicz

Tadeusz Browicz was a Polish pathologist, born in Lviv, who lived from 1847 to 1928. He studied medicine in Krakow, took his medical doctorate there in 1873, and stayed on as an assistant to the pathologist Alfred Biesiadecki. He gained his habilitation in 1875 and from 1880 to 1919 held the chair of anatomical pathology at the Jagiellonian University, where he also served as rector in 1894 and 1895. His name is tied to two findings. In 1874 he was the first to describe the bacillus that causes typhoid fever, later known as Salmonella typhi, and in 1898 he was the first to correctly identify the Kupffer cells of the liver as specialized macrophages. He also researched jaundice, liver cancer and disorders of the heart muscle, and in 1905 he published a Polish medical dictionary.