Władysław Mazurkiewicz (physician) (original) (raw)

Władysław Mazurkiewicz (1871–1933) was a Polish physician and professor at the University of Warsaw. In May 1901, together with Aleksander Sulkiewicz, he helped Józef Piłsudski escape from a mental hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia, to which Piłsudski had been transferred from the Warsaw Citadel after feigning mental illness. In 1920, he was appointed Director of the University of Warsaw's Pharmacy Division of the Faculty of Medicine. He chaired the national committee which produced the first edition of the Polish Pharmacopoeia.