[Kazimierz Karaffa-Korbutt (1878-1935) physician--hygienist]

During the years 1918-1921 Kazimierz Karaffa-Korbutt -- a physician-hygienist worked as a professor of the Piotrograd University, then he moved to Vilnus where the lectured at the S. Batory University. The creator of the Polish school of experimental hygiene who also laid the foundations of the industrial hygiene. The author of the first school and university textbooks on hygiene as well as of many publications in the area of hygiene, among them works on occupational, military and social hygiene deserve a special mention. In 1925 he founded and edited the first scientific journal devoted to hygienic issues entitled "Archiwum Higieny". He was a member of numerous national and international scientific associations. In 1932 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Learning.