He studied medicine at the Imperial Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, graduated in 1886 and received doctor title cum eximia laude in 1889.

He studied abroad under Mechnikov and Roux at Pasteur Institute in Paris, in London, Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, Strassburg and Prague under Huppert.

In years 1891–1897 he was a Privatdozent in Sankt Petersburg, in 1897 he became professor and moved to Kiev, where he headed the diagnostics and therapeutics clinics.

In 1931 he moved to Warsaw, where he was appointed professor of internal diseases.

After World War II he lived for a short time in Piotrków,[3] than moved to Kalisz, where he died about 1950.