[Kazimierz Filip Wize as a physician and a medical ethicist]

Kazimierz Filip Wize (1873-1953) was an interesting and unjustly forgotten, physician-philosopher whose lifetime spanned eight decades over the two past centuries. A disciple of Jan Danysz in Paris, he finally chose to become a psychiatrist. His other fields of interests were philosophy and ethics as well as literature, especially poetry, of which he was an excellent translator from the German. This paper discusses K. F. Wize's life and his philosophical and ethical views, with an emphasis on their specificity, in comparison with the ethical concepts of that time.