Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz

Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz (; 11 August 1850 – 31 October 1921) was a Polish pathologist.

Biography Adamkiewicz was born in Żerków. He earned his medical doctorate in 1873 from the University of Breslau where he was a student-assistant to physiologist Rudolf Peter Heinrich Heidenhain. From 1879 until 1892, he was chief of general and experimental pathology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Adamkiewicz is remembered for his pathological examinations of the central nervous system. His research of the variable vascularity of the spinal cord was an important contribution to the development of modern clinical vascular surgery. He is credited with describing the major anterior segmental medullary artery, which is also known as the Artery of Adamkiewicz.