Marceli Landsberg

Marceli Landsberg (born 28 March 1890 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland – 25 June 1951 in Łódź, Poland), physician, specialist in internal medicine and contagious diseases, professor of the Medical Academy in Lodz.

Family

He was the younger son of Alexander Landsberg (1859–1928), an industrialist from Tomaszów Mazowiecki, and Eleonora (Lea) née Landsberg (1862–1942). He married Maria Sachs, who bore him two daughters: Anna Haar (1921–1984) and Elizabeth Janina (b. 1925). His grandfather Hilary Landsberg (1834–1898) was a cloth manufacturer in Tomaszów Mazowiecki.

Education

He attended the Real-gymnasium in Piotrków Trybunalski. In 1905 he took part in school strike and was forced to leave the gymnasium. After receiving his graduation diploma in Odessa he studied medicine in Berlin and Freiburg in Baden. In 1913 he earned doctorate in medicine "magna cum laude" on the basis of his German dissertation entitled "Studien zur Lehre von der Blutgerinnung". In 1912–14 he worked as a volunteer in an internal clinics in Freiburg and Greifswald. In 1914 he received a Russian certification of his diploma in the University of Kiev.

Professional and scientific achievement

During the World War I he served as a physician in the Russian Army. In 1918–26 he worked as a senior assistant in the Second Internal Clinic of the University of Warsaw. In 1926–34 he worked in a hospital in Warsaw, as well as in the State Hygiene Institute. In 1934–39 he worked as a director of the Internal Department of the Warsaw Hospital "Na Czystem".

Years 1939-1945

In 1939 after the outbreak of the World War II he escaped with his wife to Lvov. He worked there a department director in a Russian hospital. In 1941–42 he was a department director in the Jewish Hospital in Lvov. Then he returned to Warsaw and was forced to settle in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he was an internal medicine consultant, as well as a lecturer on courses for physicians and students. In 1942 he escaped from Ghetto together with his daughters. He hid under a false name in the "Aryan" part of Warsaw. He worked as a male nurse and physician. He took part in an underground activity.

Academician career

After the II World War he worked as a director of a hospital in Chojny (southern district of Łódź) in 1945-1946, later as a director of a hospital in Radogoszcz (northern district of Lodz) in 1946–47. In 1947 he earned his habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Łódź. On 1 October 1950 he became an associate professor in the Medical Academy in Lodz, as well as a director of the Contagious Clinic in the Academy. Unfortunately, he died suddenly on 25 June 1951 in Łódź. He was buried in the Catholic Cemetery in Radogoszcz (Łódź). His younger sister Henryka Stefańska (1900–1990) was buried in the same grave.

Publications

Marceli Landsberg published more than 50 scientific publications in five European languages. A complete list of Marceli Landsberg's publications is prepared by A. Ber in 1952.

He was a secretary of the Main Board of the Polish Endocrinological Association.

References

A. Ber, Profesor doktor Marceli Landsberg (wspomnienie pośmiertne), „Endokrynologia Polska” 3, 1952, pp. 429–431
Andrzej Kempa, Marek Szukalak, The Biographical Dictionary of the Jews from Lodz, Lodz 2006: Oficyna Bibliofilów and Fundacja Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzense, pp. 150 (Marceli Landsberg's biographical note).
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, Słownik biograficzny Żydów tomaszowskich [The Biographical Dictionary of Jews from Tomaszów Mazowiecki], Łódź - Tomaszów Mazowiecki 2010: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, s. 152-153, s.v. Landsberg Marceli (1890–1951).

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