KONRAD BOLESŁAW JAN ZEMBRZUSKI -- LEKARZ-ZAŁOŻYCIEL POWOJENNEGO HARCERSTWA W OLSZTYNIE.

Konrad B. J. Zembrzuski was born on March 3, 1915, in Serock and he died on March 16, 1986, in Warsaw. He completed the Piotr Skarga High School in Pułtusk on May 13, 1933. He began his studies at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Warsaw in 1934 as a former student of the Sanitary Military College. When World War II broke out in 1939, he had completed his education at the University, but he had not received a physician's diploma. He participated in The Polish Defensive War of 1939. He was arrested in October 1942 in connection with the disclosure of the scout conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pawiak Prison and, following the investigation, he was sent to German concentration camps in Majdanek, Płaszów, Gross-Rosen and Lutomierzyce. He suffered from typhus in the last one. After the liberation of that camp by Soviet soldiers, Zembrzuski returned to Poland. He received a physician's diploma on August 11, 1945 from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Warsaw. On September 1, 1945 he was appointed commissioner-doctor for infectious diseases in the District of Mazury and epidemiologist in the Olsztyn Branch of the National Institute of Hygiene. On May 31, 1953 he moved to the Ministry of Health in Warsaw. From February 1, 1955 he worked as lecturer in the National Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw. He specialized in epidemiology and was conferred the degree of Doctor of Medical Science on December 20, 1960. He was one of the organizers of scouting in Olsztyn. He published more than 70 papers about zoonoses and parasitoses (particularly taeniasis). Having retired from his medical career, he remained active in scouting. He was a member of The Polish Epidemiological Society and the Polish Parasitological Society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]