Alfred BiesiadeckiGrave of Alfred Biesiadecki at Lychakiv Cemetery
Alfred Biesiadecki (13 March 1839 – 31 March 1889) was a Polish
pathologist born in
Dukla.
He studied medicine at the
University of Vienna, earning his medical doctorate in 1862. In 1865 he became an assistant at the institute of
pathological anatomy in
Vienna under
Karl Rokitansky. From 1868 to 1876 he was a professor of pathological anatomy at the
Jagiellonian University in
Kraków, afterwards moving to
Lviv where he served as Protomedikus, working as an organizer of health services.
Biesiadecki was a pioneer of Polish
histopathology, remembered for contributions made in research of skin diseases. His name is associated with "Biesiadecki's fossa", a
peritoneal recess that is also known as the
iliacosubfascialfossa. He published medical treatises in Polish and German.
Selected publications
Über das Chiasma nervorum opticorum des Menschen und der Tiere (Involving the chiasma nervorum opticorum of humans and animals), 1860
Untersuchungen über die Gallen- und Lymphgefässe der Menschenleber in pathologischen Zuständen (Studies on the bile and
lymph vessels of the human
liver in pathological states), 1867
Beiträge zur physiologischen Anatomie der Haut (Contributions to the physiological anatomy of the skin), 1867
Untersuchungen aus dem pathologisch-anatomischen Institut in Krakau (Investigations of the Pathological-anatomical Institute in Kraków), 1872