Władysław Marian Jakowicki

Władysław Maria Jakowicki (1885 – ca.1940/1942) was a Polish soldier, physician and an academic. Professor and rector of the Stefan Batory University in Wilno (Vilnius). Arrested, imprisoned and died in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Poland (around 1940-1942), exact location and place of death unknown.

Biography Władysław Maria Jakowicki was born on 19 September 1885 in Vitebsk. In 1903 he finished a gymnasium there, and for the next three years he studied medicine at the University of Moscow. Next year he received confirmation of his diploma from the Kiev University. From that time till the First World War he was an assistant in the obstetrics and gynaecology clinic of the Lviv University.

He was a member of many scientific societies, such as the Lviv, Warsaw and Vilnius Medical Associations. He has served as president in some of them. He was sentenced for 10 years.