Włodzimierz Józef Godłowski (7 October 1900 – April/May 1940) was a Polish neurologist and psychologist. A professor of the Stefan Batory University in Wilno (Vilnius), he was also an officer in the Polish Army during the German and Soviet invasion of Poland. He was made a prisoner of war by the Soviets in 1939 and was murdered in the 1940 Katyn massacre.
Biography
Włodzimierz Godłowski was born in Stryi on 7 October 1900.[1] He finished a gymnasium in Sanok in 1918, and then enrolled in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.[1] Around that time he also served in the military, where he served as a trainee at the Internal Illnesses Clinic.[1] He obtained his PhD in 1925 at the Jagiellonian University, where he also worked as a docent.[1][2] From 1925-1927 he worked at the Mental Illness Institute in Rybnik.[1] From 1927 he worked in the Neurology Clinic at the Jagiellonian University.[1] In 1930 he spent half a year practicing in Vienna.[1] From September 1938 he was a member of the faculty if the Stefan Batory University in Wilno (Vilnius).[2] He was the director of the University's Neurology Clinic and Brain Institute.[3]
His research concerned issues such as brainstem and cerebral cortex.[1] His best known work was the Podkorowe ośrodki spojrzenia i skojarzonych ruchów oczu (1936)(Subcortical centers of gaze and associated eye movements).[1] It was that work that gained him his habilitation.[1]
^ abcdefghijPolska Akademia Umiejętności; Instytut Historii (Polska Akademia Nauk) (1935). Polski słownik biograficzny. Skład główny w księg, Gebethnera i Wolffa. p. 189.