by Pi­otr Po­laczek — Józef Brudz­iński died De­cem­ber 18th, 1917 at the age of 43. In his short life, he achieved promi­nence as a pe­di­a­tri­cian, neu­rol­o­gist, bac­te­ri­ol­o­gist, and also as a po­lit­i­cal fig­ure. In Poland, he is re­mem­bered as the first rec­tor of War­saw Uni­ver­sity fol­low­ing its re­vival af­ter a cen­tury of tur­moil. He was also whole­heart­edly in­volved in...