Włodzimierz Godłowski

Włodzimierz Godłowski was born in Stryi on 7 October 1900.[1] He finished a gymnasium in Sanok in 1918, and then enrolled in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.[1] Around that time he also served in the military, where he served as a trainee at the Internal Illnesses Clinic.[1] He obtained his PhD in 1925 at the Jagiellonian University, where he also worked as a docent.[1][2] From 1925-1927 he worked at the Mental Illness Institute in Rybnik.[1] From 1927 he worked in the Neurology Clinic at the Jagiellonian University.[1] In 1930 he spent half a year practicing in Vienna.[1] From September 1938 he was a member of the faculty if the Stefan Batory University in Wilno (Vilnius).[2] He was the director of the University's Neurology Clinic and Brain Institute.[3]

His research concerned issues such as brainstem and cerebral cortex.[1] His best known work was the Podkorowe ośrodki spojrzenia i skojarzonych ruchów oczu (1936)(Subcortical centers of gaze and associated eye movements).[1] It was that work that gained him his habilitation.[1]

As a junior lieutenant of the military reserves of the Polish Army, he was mobilized on 27 August 1939.[3] He served on Poland's eastern frontier, in the "Łużki" Battalion of the "Głębokie" Regiment of the Border Protection Corps.[3] After the German and Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 he became a prisoner of war in the custody of the Soviet Union.[2][3] He was imprisoned in Kozielsk, and was a victim of the Katyn massacre in 1940 (around April–May),[2][3] aged 39.

He was the father of Kazimierz Godłowski, an archeologist and historian.