Alfred Biesiadecki was a Polish pathologist born in Dukla

Dukla

Dukla ; , Duklya] is a town and an eponymous municipality in southeastern Poland, in the Subcarpathian Voivodship. The town is populated by 2,127 people . while the total population of the commune containing the town and the villages surrounding it is 16,640...

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He studied medicine at the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

, earning his medical doctorate in 1862. In 1865 he became an assistant at the institute of pathological anatomy in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 under Karl Rokitansky. From 1868 to 1876 he was a professor of pathological anatomy at the Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....

 in Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

, afterwards moving to Lviv

Lviv

Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

 where he served as Protomedikus, working as an organizer of health services.

Biesiadecki was a pioneer of Polish histopathology

Histopathology

Histopathology refers to the microscopic examination of tissue in order to study the manifestations of disease...

, remembered for contributions made in research of skin diseases. His name is associated with "Biesiadecki's fossa", a peritoneal

Peritoneum

The peritoneum is the serous membrane that forms the lining of the abdominal cavity or the coelom — it covers most of the intra-abdominal organs — in amniotes and some invertebrates...

 recess that is also known as the iliac

Ilium (bone)

The ilium is the uppermost and largest bone of the pelvis, and appears in most vertebrates including mammals and birds, but not bony fish. All reptiles have an ilium except snakes, although some snake species have a tiny bone which is considered to be an ilium.The name comes from the Latin ,...

osubfascial fossa

Fossa (anatomy)

In anatomical terminology, fossa has come to mean a depression or hollow, in general, in a bone. Other parts of the body may be involved, for example, the antecubital fossa...

. He published medical treatises in Polish and German.

Selected publications

• Über das Chiasma nervorum opticorum des Menschen und der Tiere (Involving the Chiasma Nervorum Opticorum of Humans and Animals), 1860
• Untersuchungen über die Gallen- und Lymphgefässe der Menschenleber in pathologischen Zuständen (Studies on the Bile and Lymph Vessels of Human Liver in Pathological States), 1867
• Beiträge zur physiologischen Anatomie der Haut (Contributions to the Physiological Anatomy of the Skin), 1867
• Untersuchungen aus dem pathologisch-anatomischen Institut in Krakau (Investigations of the Pathological-anatomical Institute in Krakow), 1872
• Anatomija patologiczna gruczołów skórnych, 1874