Włodzimierz Godłowski
Polish neurologist and army officer who was murdered in the Katyn massacre
Włodzimierz Józef Godłowski (7 October 1900 – April/May 1940) was a Polish neurologist and psychologist. A professor of the Stefan Batory University in Wilno (Vilnius), he was also an officer in the Polish Army during the German and Soviet invasion of Poland. He was made a prisoner of war by the Soviets in 1939 and was murdered in the 1940 Katyn massacre.
Biography
Włodzimierz Godłowski was born in Stryi on 7 October 1900. He finished a gymnasium in Sanok in 1918, and then enrolled in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Around that time he also served in the military, where he served as a trainee at the Internal Illnesses Clinic. He obtained his PhD in 1925 at the Jagiellonian University, where he also worked as a docent. From 1925-1927 he worked at the Mental Illness Institute in Rybnik. From 1927 he worked in the Neurology Clinic at the Jagiellonian University. In 1930 he spent half a year practicing in Vienna.
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