[Professor Tadeusz Baranowski (1910-1993)]

Tadeusz Baranowski was born in Lwow on 13 September 1910. He finished his medical studies in 1933 at the Jan Kazimierz University, worked at the Medical Chemistry Institute directed by Jacob Parnas, resided in Wilno from 1935-1937, and defended his doctorate there in 1936. He earned his habilitat degree in 1939 upon his return to Lwow. From 1939-1941 Baranowski worked first as docent and then as professor at the Biochemistry Department of the Government Institute of Medicine in Lwow. From 1942-1944 he was the director of the Medical Chemistry Institute of the Government Medical Studies Program. In 1944, he moved from Lwow to Krakow. In May of 1945, he moved once again from Krakow to Wroclaw, to take the position of director of the group responsible for overseeing the buildings and equipment of the Medical Academy. That same year he became an associate professor and director of the Physiological Chemistry Department. He also held the office of dean of the medical faculty and president of the Medical Academy in Wroclaw. Prof. Baranowski was nominated to a full professorship in 1955. He became an associate member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1954, and in 1969 he was awarded full membership in the Academy. Over the years, he held different positions both within the Medical Academy and in the Academy of Sciences. He received many awards, including several from the Polish government. Professor Tadeusz Baranowski retired in 1980, and died in Wroclaw on 24 March 1993.