Antoni Leśniowski

(January 28, 1867. April 8, 1940) - P olish surgeon, in the years 1912-1914 director of the Warsaw hosp ital St. Anthony, then to 1919 the hospital department of surgery at the local hospital, church. Spirit. In the years 1919-1936 Pr ofessor of Surgery at the University of Warsaw. In 1904, he described the staple intestinal inflammation, especially acute in the final segment of the ileum (ileitis terminalis). Described the same disease again in 1932, Burrill Bernard Crohns American, and since that time in the world literature, not taking into account priority Leśniowski, its called Crohns disease (only in Poland, called the Crohns disease).