Teofil Simchowicz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Teofil Simchowicz

Polish neurologist

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1879

Place of Birth: Ciechanowiec, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 31-Dec-1957

Profession: neurologist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Teofil Simchowicz (3 June 1879 - 31 December 1957) was a Polish neurologist who was born in Ciechanowiec near Warsaw, Poland.
He studied medicine at the Imperial University of Warsaw, and received a medical degree in 1905.
In years 1907-1910 he worked in Munich under Alois Alzheimer, studying neuropathological changes in dementia.
During World War II he emigrated to Palestine. He discovered granulovacuolar degeneration (of Simchowicz), observed in hippocampal pyramidal cells in Alzheimer's disease.