Kazimierz Kostanecki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish physician and anatomist
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Place of Birth: Myszaków, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Kazimierz Kostanecki
- Professor Kazimierz Kostanecki (25 December 1863, Myszaków – 11 January 1940, Sachsenhausen concentration camp) was a Polish physician, anatomist, and cytologist.
- Since 1892 he was a professor of comparative and descriptive anatomy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków under the military partitions of Poland.
- He held his post until 1935 in the reborn Second Polish Republic.
- During this time he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and between 1913 and 1916 was the Rector of the Jagiellonian University.
- He is considered the father of the Kraków school of anatomy due to his many scientific discoveries and accomplishments.Kostanecki is the author of 62 scientific publications in Polish, English, German, and French.
- During his work in Berlin and Giessen he conducted research in the field of comparative anatomy of throat and palate, and the anatomy of the neck and head.
- He also described all the muscles associated with the Ear trumpet and, as the first, described their inner connections.
- In Kraków, he conducted pioneering research into the process of maturation of oocytes.
- In the final period of his scientific work he studied the phylogenetic development of the cecum and the appendix, and the functioning of the lymphoid tissue.
- Kostanecki was the recipient of many prestigious awards.After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Kostanecki was arrested on 6 November 1939 in his Alma mater during the German Sonderaktion Krakau against the Polish academics.
- He died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on 11 January 1940.
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