Odo Bujwid - an eminent Polish bacteriologist and professor at the Jagiellonian University

To celebrate the 650th Jubilee of the Jagiellonian University, we would like to give an outline of the life and work of Odo Bujwid, known as the father of Polish bacteriology. The intention of the authors is to recall the beginnings of Polish bacteriology, the doyen of which was Professor Odo Bujwid, a great Polish scholar who also served as a promoter of bacteriology, a field created in the 19th century. He published about 400 publications, including approx. 200 in the field of bacteriology. He is credited with popularizing the research of the fathers of global bacteriology - Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur - and applying it practically, as well as educating Polish microbiologists who constituted the core of the scientific staff during the interwar period.