Roman Nitsch (1873–1943), doktor medycyny, serolog i bakteriolog
Roman Nitsch (1873–1943), doctor of medicine, serologist and bacteriologist

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to bring us closer to the figure of Roman Nitsch and his activities in the fields of serology and bacteriology. R. Nitsch studied medicine at Jagiellonian University during the years 1893–1898. For ten years, he was an assistant in the Department of Hygiene and Bacteriology at Jagiellonian University. During that time, he participated in the scientific expedition of Joseph Lindley to research the water intake of the Kura River in the Caucasus region, from which a water pipe to the city of Baku was to be built. He carried out intensive scientific research on rabies and completed his habilitation based on this subject in 1907 at Jagiellonian University. In the same year, he applied to the Executive Board of the Academy of Arts and Sciences for a grant from the Wiktor Osławski Fund. He received 620 krone as financial aid as well as 5,000 krone as a scholarship, thanks to which he conducted scientific work from November 1909 until November 1910 in Paris, Berne, Zurich, Munich, Brussels and Berlin, dealing with the theoretical considerations of constructing modern towns and workers’ houses from the perspective of social hygiene.

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