Marcin Kacprzak

Marcin Kacprzak (6 November 1888, Podolszyce - 14 July 1968, Warsaw) was a doctor, educator, pedagogue, publicist, pioneer of social medicine in Poland.

He received his medical diploma in 1915 at the National University of Kharkiv, then he worked as a doctor in the Pskov oblast.

[5] In 1922–1924, he studied hygiene and health care organisation at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship.

In the years 1953–1954, he was the director of the newly established Institute of Improvement and Specialisation of Medical Personnel in Warsaw.

[10] After World War II, he led to the reactivation of the Polish Hygienic Society, of which he was the president until the end of his life.

Kacprzak's grave at the Powązki Military Cemetery