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01-03-2016 | Pioneers in Neurology
Tomasz Drobnik (1858–1901)
Authors:
Andrzej Grzybowski, Krzysztof Pietrzak
Published in:
Journal of Neurology
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Issue 3/2016
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Tomasz Drobnik was born on 6 September 1858 in Pleszew as a Polish citizen. He moved to Poznań where he completed his secondary education. In 1880 he started his medical studies in Wroclaw, Poland, and completed them in Würzburg, Germany. It was there where he obtained a degree as a doctor of medicine in 1885 [
1]. After completing his military service, he worked in Wrocław and subsequently in Strasburg. The focus of his interest was thyroid surgery [
2], which he continued between 1887 and 1890 guided by Professor J. Mikulicz-Radecki in the Surgical Clinic in Konigsberg. …