Vul. Pekarska, 52 – buildings of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University ID: 324
Buildings of the Danylo Halytsky Lviv State Medical University (1892, architect Józef Braunseis). The architectural style of the buildings is Historicism (Neorenaissance). Three buildings (the anatomy building, the pathology building, and the pharmacology building) are arranged in the form of an open cour d'honneur, forming a unified ensemble. The structures serve as an example of a late nineteenth-century higher education building ensemble.
Architecture
Three buildings (the anatomy building, the pathology building, and the pharmacology building) are arranged in a U-shape around an open cour d'honneur, forming a single ensemble. The structures were built near Lviv's picturesque eastern suburb in a parkland setting. They were designed for the needs of the university's medical department.
The core unit of the ensemble is the anatomy building, with its principal elevation facing vul. Pekarska. It is a two-story plastered brick building featuring a high semi-basement floor and a roof clad in roof tiles. Highlighted is the central avant-corps containing the main entrance, decorated at the second-story level with pilasters topped by Ionic capitals. An attic and a pediment decorated with a cartouche are built above the avant-corps. The first floor and the semi-basement floor are treated with rustication. The window openings of the second story on the projection of the avant-corps are arched. In other sections of the façade, the windows are rectangular. The windows on the first and second floors have profiled trimmings.
The pathology and pharmacology buildings are arranged symmetrically on both sides of the anatomy building. Their end façades face vul. Pekarska, while their principal elevations face each other. Each of them is a two-story plastered brick building with a semi-basement floor. The architectural and compositional design techniques applied to their exteriors are similar to those used for the anatomy building.
The internal layout of the buildings is based on a corridor-and-enfilade system. Within the interior complex, the grand staircase and the large amphitheatrical lecture hall in the central building (the anatomy building) draw particular attention.
The structures serve as an example of forming a complex of facilities for the needs of a higher education institution at the end of the nineteenth century.
People
Henryk Hilarowicz — polish surgeon, pioneer of anesthesiology, professor at Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. Professor at the Department of Surgery.
Adam Solowij — obstetrician-gynecologist, professor at Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. Worked at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1901 to 1930.
Organizations
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Jan Kazimierz University (Uniwersytet Jana Kazimierza)
The Franz (Francis) I University of Lviv was reorganized as the Jan Kazimierz University in 1918, after the Polish-Ukrainian war and the battles for Lviv. During the period, the University was one of the largest and most significant scientific and cultural centers of interwar Poland. It was renamed after the beginning of the Soviet occupation in 1939 into Ivan Franko State University.
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