Włodzimierz Józef Godłowski (7 October 1900 – April/May 1940) was a Polish neurologist and psychologist. A professor of the Stefan Batory University in Wilno (Vilnius), he was also an officer in the Polish Army during the German and Soviet invasion of Poland. He was made a prisoner of war by the Soviets in 1939 and was murdered in the 1940 Katyn massacre.
Biography
editWłodzimierz Godłowski was born in Stryi on 7 October 1900.[1] He finished a gymnasium in Sanok in 1918, and then enrolled in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.[1] Around that time he also served in the military, where he served as a trainee at the Internal Illnesses Clinic.[1] He obtained his PhD in 1925 at the Jagiellonian University, where he also worked as a docent.[1][2] From 1925-1927 he worked at the Mental Illness Institute in Rybnik.[1] From 1927 he worked in the Neurology Clinic at the Jagiellonian University.[1] In 1930 he spent half a year practicing in Vienna.[1] From September 1938 he was a member of the faculty if the Stefan Batory University in Wilno (Vilnius).[2] He was the director of the University's Neurology Clinic and Brain Institute.[3]
His research concerned issues such as brainstem and cerebral cortex.[1] His best known work was the Podkorowe ośrodki spojrzenia i skojarzonych ruchów oczu (1936)(Subcortical centers of gaze and associated eye movements).[1] It was that work that gained him his habilitation.[1]
As a junior lieutenant of the military reserves of the Polish Army, he was mobilized on 27 August 1939.[3] He served on Poland's eastern frontier, in the "Łużki" Battalion of the "Głębokie" Regiment of the Border Protection Corps.[3] After the German and Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 he became a prisoner of war in the custody of the Soviet Union.[2][3] He was imprisoned in Kozielsk, and was a victim of the Katyn massacre in 1940 (around April–May),[2][3] aged 39.
He was the father of Kazimierz Godłowski, an archeologist and historian.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Polska Akademia Umiejętności; Instytut Historii (Polska Akademia Nauk) (1935). Polski słownik biograficzny. Skład główny w księg, Gebethnera i Wolffa. p. 189.
- ^ a b c d Mieczysław Barcik, Adam Cieślak, "Z Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego do mogił katyńskich" - wystawa w Archiwum UJ. Alma Mater. Nr 31/2001
- ^ a b c d e Józef Piotr Knap, Służba zdrowia Korpusu Ochrony Pogranicza (od 1924 r. do mobilizacji), BIULETYN CENTRALNEGO OŚRODKA SZKOLENIA STRAŻY GRANICZNEJ im. Marszałka Polski Józefa Piłsudskiego, nr 4/2007.