Jan Stanisław Olbrycht

Who was Jan Stanisław Olbrycht?

Jan Stanisław Olbrycht was a Polish medic, university professor and one of the most renowned specialists in forensics of the early 20th century. Throughout his life he served as a chief specialist in various trials, especially in the assessment of evidence. Between 1923 and his retirement in 1962 he was a professor at the Kraków-based Jagiellonian University. From 1931 he was also a member of the Polish Academy of Skills and from 1958 - of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Arrested by the Germans in 1942, he spent the rest of the war in Auschwitz and then Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp