He was the author of nearly one hundred original research papers, mostly in the field of clinical cardiology, and was the initiator of the construction of the Institute of Pediatrics in Kraków-Prokocim, nowadays the University Children's Hospital in Kraków.

[1] He was born in the village of Igołomia as the son of Leon Tochowicz, a merchant, and Dorota née Nawrocka.

He obtained Ph.D. in medical sciences in 1926,[3][4] after which he started working at the University as an assistant at the First Department of Internal Medicine.

On 6 November 1939, as part of the Sonderaktion Krakau action, together with a group of other professors and lecturers of the Jagiellonian University, he was arrested by the Germans and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

He extended it to organizational activity, taking over in 1947, as the newly appointed professor, the leadership of the First Department of Internal Medicine at the Jagiellonian University.

Tochowicz's achievements in didactic activities made that he was by some referred to as the "founder of the Kraków school of cardiology".