Blaski i cienie życia oraz kariery naukowej Józefy Joteyko (1866–1928)

Like Maria Skłodowska-Curie, the most well-known Polish woman, Józefa Joteyko was a famous scientist living in the 19th and 20th centuries. She studied at the University of Geneva at the Faculty of Natural Sciences first, then medicine at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). As a Polish scientist, she did a large scope of research in physiology, psychology, pedagogy, and paedology. She is one of the pioneers of paedology – the science occupied with the development of children and teenagers. In 1916 she started to work at the College de France, where she was the second Polish lecturer and the first woman – professor at this old and well-known college. After coming back to Poland in 1919 she was occupied mainly with organizational matters of the Polish educational system, conducting wide research on children’s intelligence and ability, also on the application of tests as a method to study children physiological structure. She gave lectures at the Government Institute of Pedagogy and Institute of Special Pedagogy, receiving habilitation, a Polish academic title, in psychology at Warsaw University Faculty of Medicine in 1926. During her work abroad, she was granted awards and honours for her scientific research from the Royal Society of Medical and Natural Sciences in Belgium, Academy of Sciences in France, Belgium Society of Neurologists, and others associations. She was a member of many societies and scientific organizations, which she kept contact with until the end of her life. She was single, with no family.