Adam Wizel

Born in Warsaw, Adam Wizel received his medical degree from the University of Warsaw in 1889. After completing postdoctoral work in psychiatry in France, Wizel returned to his hometown in 1890, where from 1898 he directed the psychiatric ward at the newly founded Jewish Hospital in the city’s Czyste neighborhood. Wizel remained in this post for the rest of his career, although during the Russo-Japanese war, he left the city to serve in the imperial Russian war effort, in part in Harbin, Manchuria. In addition to his medical work, Wizel founded several social and professional organizations dedicated to mental health care.