Janina Hurynowicz

Janina Hurynowicz (1894–1967) was a Polish medical doctor, neurophysiologist and neurologist. She was the author of many works on Chronaxie and the influence of insulin on the autonomic nervous system and became a professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

Biography Janina Hurynowicz was born 10 November 1894 in Krystynopol in the territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth annexed by Russia.

University life From 1922–1933, Hurynowicz progressed through her academic career at the University of Vilnius, from junior assistant to assistant professor of the neurological clinic. Gravestone of Janina Hurynowicz at the St. George Cemetery in Toruń In the summer of 1945, after her evacuation from Vilnius, she moved to Toruń, assuming the position of associate professor of the head of the Department of Neurophysiology and Comparative Physiology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. In 1949 she was promoted to full professor. From 1946, she was involved in organizational work at the emerging branches of the State Institute of Mental Hygiene in Toruń and Bydgoszcz, from which mental health clinics were later established. She remained the director of an outpatient clinic in Toruń until 1954.

Hurynowicz retired at the age of 70 and died 2 October 1967 in Toruń. She was buried there in the St. George Cemetery.

Selected memberships

Torun Medical Society (founder) German Society of Neurologists Societé Philomatique Association de la Langue Française

Selected works Chauchard, A. E., Chauchard, B., & Hurynowicz, J. (1927). Étude quantitative de l'action de l'ion calcium sur l'excitabilité de l'appareil sécrétoire, corde du tympan, glande sous-maxillaire. Hurynowicz, J. (1933). Über die normale und pathologische Chronaxie der vasomotorischen Nerven. Pogoń. Hurynowicz, J. (1947). L'influence de certaines substances narcotiques... Wydział Nauki M-stwa Oświaty. Hurynowicz, J. (1952). The Vestibular System of the Rabbit in Fatigue. Bulletin de la Societe des amis des sciences et des lettres de Poznan. Seria C: Medecine, 3(3), 17-34.