Alfred Biesiadecki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish pathologist
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Place of Birth: Dukla, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
About Alfred Biesiadecki
- Alfred Biesiadecki (13 March 1839 – 31 March 1889) was a Polish pathologist born in Dukla. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, earning his medical doctorate in 1862.
- In 1865 he became an assistant at the institute of pathological anatomy in Vienna under Karl Rokitansky.
- From 1868 to 1876 he was a professor of pathological anatomy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, afterwards moving to Lviv where he served as Protomedikus, working as an organizer of health services. Biesiadecki was a pioneer of Polish histopathology, remembered for contributions made in research of skin diseases.
- His name is associated with "Biesiadecki's fossa", a peritoneal recess that is also known as the iliacosubfascial fossa.
- He published medical treatises in Polish and German.
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