Julian Szymański
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Julian Szymański | |
|---|---|
 Szymański in the years 1928-1930 | |
| Marshal of the Senate | |
| In office 27 March 1928 – 8 December 1930 | |
| President | Ignacy Mościcki |
| Preceded by | Wojciech Trąmpczyński |
| Succeeded by | Władysław Raczkiewicz |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 26 March 1928 – 8 December 1930 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 May 1870 |
| Died | 8 June 1958 (aged 88) |
| Party | Independent |
| Other political affiliations | Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government |
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Julian Juliusz Szymański (10 May 1870[1] – 8 June 1958[2]) was a Polish politician who served as Marshal of the Senate of Poland from 1928 to 1930 and Senator from 1928 to 1930. He was also an ophthalmologist and author.
He attended university in Kyiv where he completed a major in Medical studies.[3] After completing his medical studies in university he was an assistant in an ophthalmological clinic.
He became the physician of the Russian merchant fleet in Vladivostok in the year 1896, a position which held until 1898.[4] He then worked as a ophthalmologist from 1899 to 1902 for the East China Railway in Charbin and served as a Military Physician in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.[4]
Since he took part in the Russian Revolution of 1905 he emigrated to the United States fearing repression for his participation. Szymański ran a practice in Chicago and became a secretary of the Polish Medical Association in Chicago.[4]
In 1912 he moved to Brazil where he became a professor at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba.[3] He also produced one of the first textbooks on ophthalmology in Portugeese which he also published in Polish as by the name of 'Ophthalmology in Shortened (1920)'.[3]
Once he returned to Poland he in 1922 became a professor at the Stephan Bathory University in Vilnius.[5]
Political career
He became a Senator in 1928 in the Senate of the 2nd term of the Second Polish Republic and in the same year became the Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland and continued to serve in that post until the end of the Senate's 2nd term in 1930.[6] He did not seek re-election in the 1930 Polish parliamentary election.
