Hygeia Public Health 2014, 49(4): 765-768pl

Period of academic activity of Professor Rudolf Weigl in Poznan (1948-1951)

Zbigniew S. Pawłowski

Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu

Summary
Professor Rudolf Weigl, the originator of the epidemic typhus vaccine, was chief of the Department of General Biology of the Medical Faculty at Poznan University between 1948-1951. Although the Institute for professor Rudolf Weigl had not been founded in Poznan, his activity at Poznan University initiated the creation of an important centre of medical parasitology. This fact is usually overlooked in the biography of professor Rudolf Weigl.

Key words:  Rudolf Weigl, typhus, vaccine, University of Poznan, history of medicine