[Assistant Professor Józef Szymanowicz Md. PhD.: his life and activities]

The paper presented the life and activities of Józef Szymanowicz MD. PHD (1886-1946). He was one of the closest collaborators of Professor Aleksander Rosner, Head of the Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a pioneer of Polish endocrinological gynaecology. Józef Szymanowicz, one of the most promising young researchers headed the Clinic after the death of Professor Rosner (1930-1931). Until the outbreak of the Second World War he was Head of the Gynaecology Ward of the Saint Lazarus Hospital in Cracow. He left several very interesting scientific papers for the next generation.