[1] He earned his medical doctorate in 1873 from the University of Breslau where he was a student-assistant to physiologist Rudolf Peter Heinrich Heidenhain.

From 1879 until 1892, he was chief of general and experimental pathology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

[2] In the early 1890s, Adamkiewicz published a series of articles claiming the discovery of a cancer-causing parasite he called Coccidium sarcolytus, as well as the existence of an anti-cancer serum.

Further testing proved the serum a failure, and Adamkiewicz was severely criticized by the medical community at Jagiellonian University.

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