PROFESSOR ANATOL DOWŻENKO — CLINICAL NEUROLOGIST, SCIENTIST AND EDUCATOR

Professor Anatol Dowżenko was without doubt one of Poland’s most prominent neurologists of the 20th century. He was born in Russia, in Sergievskie Mineralnye Vody, on 2 July 1905. He was the son of a lawyer, Tymoteusz Dowżenko. After completing secondary education in Lutsk, Dowżenko enrolled at the Poznań University, initially at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. After a year, however, he transferred to the University’s Faculty of Medicine.