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Place of Birth: Witkowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Wiktor Bross
- Wiktor Bross (5 August 1903 – 1994) was a professor of surgery and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Bross was born in 1903 in Witków, Austria-Hungary.
- He studied at the University of Poznan Faculty of Medicine from 1922 to 1924, and following it continued his studies at the University of Lviv.
- After graduation, in 1928, Bross gets a position at St.
- Elzbieta in Katowice following which, upon returning to Lviv, Bross becomes habilitated doctor and head of the Surgery Clinic.
- When World War II broke out, he remained in Lviv and until 1943 treated the wounded at the clinic.
- However, due to attacks by Ukrainian nationalists, he fled Lviv and settled at first in Katowice and after the war - in Wroclaw where from 1946 and until his retirement and death, he was a member of the faculty of medicine of the University of Wroclaw.
- In 1952, Bross became full professor at the Medical Academy of University of Wroclaw and then became head of the Second Department and Surgery Clinic of the Medical University in Wroclaw.A pioneer in thoracic surgery and co-founder of Polish cardiac surgery, Bross became a founding member of the Wroclaw School of Surgery.
- The school allowed him and colleagues such as Antoni Aronski, Henryk Kus, Eugeniusz Rogalski, Tadeusz Orlowski, Anatol Kustrzycki, Ryszard Kocieba, Tadeusz Czereda to perform various surgeries leading to the first open-heart surgery in Poland in 1958.
- In 1971, Bross became a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, becoming its full member only in 1986.
- He also was a recipient of various honorary doctorates from the Medical Academy in Wroclaw and Katowice.
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