Joseph (Osip) Pavlovich Wojciechowski ( 1793 , Zebermanovka , Lipovetsky district , Kiev province - November 17 ( 29 ), 1850 , Kazan , Russian Empire ) - Russian doctor, orientalist, sinologist, manchuologist; Professor of Kazan University .
| Joseph Pavlovich Wojciechowski | |
|---|---|
| Joseph (Osip) | |
| Date of Birth | 1793 |
| Place of Birth | Kiev province |
| Date of death | November 17 (29), 1850 |
| A place of death | Kazan |
| A country |  Russian empire |
| Scientific field | medicine , oriental studies |
| Place of work | Kazan University |
| Alma mater | Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy (1819) |
| Famous students | N.I. Sommer |
Biography
He was born in 1793 in the village of Tsebermanovka of the Lipovetsky district of the Kiev province [1] .
Educated at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy . In 1819 he graduated from the Medical and Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg and was appointed staff doctor of the 10th Russian Spiritual Mission in Beijing . For the successful cure of the emperor’s relative, Li-qin-wang installed a commemorative plaque on the doctor’s house in the mission area with the inscription “Chan-san miao shu” 长 桑 妙 术 (“The Wonderful Art of Chan-san”), comparing it with the description historian Sima Qian in " Shi Ji " the legendary immortal healer Chang-san-jiun, who taught the medical treatment of the patriarch of medicine Bian Que [2] .
After returning to Russia in 1831, in Kazan he was the main scientific supervisor of Nikolai Ivanovich Sommer .
Scientific activity
The compiler of one of the first "Sino-Manchu-Russian Dictionary" remaining in the manuscript. After the death of Wojciechowski, a number of his other works, mentioned by Professor K. K. Voigt in his work “Review of the Course and Successes in the Study of Asian Languages at the Imperial Kazan University” (Kazan, 1852), remained unreleased.
Notes
- ↑ Essays on the history of Russian Sinology. Peter Emelyanovich Skachkov. The science. 1977
- ↑ Natural sciences and mathematics // Study in Russia of Chinese sciences, languages and education.