Eugeniusz Budzyński (14 January 1893 – 1940) was a Polish balneologist,

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, internist and major in the

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. He was killed in the

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Biography

Son of Eugeniusz and Leokadia of the Łapinkiewicz family. He studied medicine at the University of Yuryev in

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and obtained his doctor's degree in 1917. During his studies he was a member of the "Polonia" organization and the "Lechicja" academic corporation. From 1922 to 1928, the head of the Railway Hospital in

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on the city district "Wilcza Łapa", he was also a doctor at the Sickness Fund. In 1924 he was awarded a doctorate in medicine at the

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. Since 1928 he has been a spa doctor at the National Spa Institute in

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. He published about the healing properties of mineral waters in Polish spas. In 1929, near the Marconi sanatorium, Budzyński built a boarding house "Sanato". Many famous people stayed there for treatment, including

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, who dedicated one of his poems to the Budzyński family in 1932. In 1937 he was appointed a member of the State Council for Health Resorts by the Minister of Social Welfare. After the outbreak of

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, Budzynski became the commander of a field hospital. After the

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on 17 September 1939, he was taken prisoner near

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and transported to the camp in

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. He was murdered in Katyn, his body was identified at the exhumation.

Awards

* Silver Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari (no. 14384) - collective, posthumous decoration of Polish soldiers murdered in Katyn and other unknown places of execution awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland in Exile Professor

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(11 November 1976) * September Campaign Cross - a collective posthumous commemoration of all victims of the Katyn massacre (1 January 1986)

References

External links

Museum of the Polish Army, biographies of the victims of the Katyn massacre
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