Eugenia Zeylandowa

Eugenia Jadwiga Zeyland (25 February 1899 – 5 January 1953) was a Polish physician and microbiologist, specialising in tuberculosis.

Biography Eugenia was born in Kraków, daughter of physician Eugeniusz Piasecki (1872–1947) and Gizela, born Szelińska. She received her education first in Lviv and then in Zakopane, where she took her Matura examinations in 1917. That same year, she started her medical studies at the Jagiellonian University. Between 1919 and 1921, she studied chemistry at the University of Poznań, where she also continued her medical training from 1922 and from which she graduated in 1924. From 1925, she worked in the University of Poznań's Department of Medical Microbiology. She undertook research trips to Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, visiting local microbiological laboratories. In 1930, she was awarded the Pannetier Prize in Paris and in 1931 - the silver medal of the University of Poznań. She obtained her habilitation in 1937 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Warsaw, specialising in medical microbiology.