Julian Szymański

Julian Juliusz Szymański (10 May 1870 – 8 June 1958 ) was a Polish politician who served as Marshal of the Senate of Poland from 1928 to 1930 and Senator from 1928 to 1930. He was also an ophthalmologist and author.

Biography He attended university in Kyiv where he completed a major in Medical studies. After completing his medical studies in university he was an assistant in an ophthalmological clinic.

He became the physician of the Russian merchant fleet in Vladivostok in the year 1896, a position which held until 1898. He then worked as a ophthalmologist from 1899 to 1902 for the East China Railway in Charbin and served as a Military Physician in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.

Political career He became a Senator in 1928 in the Senate of the 2nd term of the Second Polish Republic and in the same year became the Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland and continued to serve in that post until the end of the Senate's 2nd term in 1930. He did not seek re-election in the 1930 Polish parliamentary election.

Later life During the German occupation of Poland he worked in the Malta Hospital in Warsaw in which he held the position of Chief Physician. After the Second World War in 1949 he once again emigrated to Brazil with his family and participated there in the local scientific life.

Commander's Cross of Order of Polonia Restituta Exact date unknown

Cross of Independence 1931

Order of the Cross of the Eagle 1st class 1931

Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross 1934

Gold Cross of Merit 1940

Knight of Magistral Grace 1940