Zdzisław Askanas (1910-1974) - materials for a physician’s biography
Zdzisław Askanas (1910-1974) - materials for a physician’s biography

Summary/Abstract: Zdzisław Askanas was a scion of a known and relatively well-off Jewish family which settled in the city of Płock in the mid-eighteenth century. The Askanas family produced a number of notable personages in various fields of science and culture, among them Kazimierz Askanas (1909-1994), a Płock regional activist; Stefan Askanas (1908-1972), the executive director of the International Poznań Fair; cardiologist Aleksander Askanas (1938-); and economist Wiktor Askanas. Zdzisław completed his medical studies at the Warsaw University Faculty of Medicine (1929-1935). Following his graduation, he worked under the supervision of two eminent internal medicine specialists: Professor Mściwoj Semerau-Siemianowski (1885-1953), at the Saint Lazarus Hospital in Warsaw, and Professor Jakub Węgierko (1889-1960), at the Saint Stanislaus Hospital for Infectious Diseases. He took part in the September campaign of 1939, stayed together with the family in the Warsaw ghetto and, following his escape, hid in Warsaw. As a physician, he participated in the Warsaw Uprising and organized hospitals for insurgents. After the war, he was one of the most important doyens of modern Polish cardiology, a university professor, and founder of the First Cardiology Chair and Clinic at the Medical University in Warsaw.

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