Arseniy Viktorovich Starkov (1874-1927) - Russian and Ukrainian biologist, researcher of anatomy and medicine, teacher, founder of the Ukrainian anatomical school, professor, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1921).
| Arseniy Viktorovich Starkov | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | February 8 (20), 1874 |
| Place of Birth | Torzhok , Tver province |
| Date of death | December 18, 1927 (53 years old) |
| Place of death | |
| Place of work | Moscow University Kiev University University of Riga |
| Alma mater | Moscow University (1897) |
| Known as | founder of the Ukrainian anatomical school |
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Biography
Born on February 8 ( 20 ), 1874 in Torzhok, Tver province , in the family of a military doctor. After graduating from the Tver Classical Gymnasium in 1892, he studied at the Faculty of Medicine at Moscow University , and graduated in 1897 with honors from a doctor. He was left at the Department of Topographic Anatomy and Operative Surgery at Moscow University as an assistant to the prosector (in 1898-1908 he was supernumerary, in 1908-1909 he was full-time). He combined work at the university with medical practice: in 1897-1898. worked in the surgical clinic of the Iveron community of nurses; in 1899-1908 - Assistant intern at the surgical department of the Golitsyn hospital in Moscow.
In September 1900, he was elected by the Council of the Moscow Women's Medical Institute a professor of descriptive and comparative anatomy and director of the Anatomical Institute, where he subsequently founded the museum of descriptive and comparative anatomy. In December 1900 he defended his thesis "Etiology and Pathological Anatomy of Muscle Torticollis" and received a doctorate in medicine .
Since November 1902, A. V. Starkov - Privat-docent of Moscow University; read an optional practical course on the anatomy and operative surgery of the male pelvis.
In 1906, for two years, he went on a business trip abroad to study anatomy and surgery at the anatomical institutes of Berlin and Vienna; worked at a zoological station in Naples .
In March 1912 he was appointed a supernumerary extraordinary professor in the department of topographic anatomy and operative surgery at Moscow University; taught a compulsory course "The doctrine of dressings." Since November 1915, he headed the University Institute of Topographic Anatomy and Operative Surgery.
During [World War I | World War I], he was the chief surgeon of the infirmary of the Imperial Family in the Peter Palace and conducted about two thousand operations.
After the October Revolution of 1917, he moved to Kiev , where at the end of January 1918 he was elected extraordinary professor and head of the Department of Normal Anatomy of the University of St. Vladimir . Under the leadership of Starkov, a Ukrainian anatomical school began to take shape. The students and assistants of Professor Starkov were the prosectors N. Vovkoboy, F. Tseshkovsky, M. Spirov, and the assistants to the prosectors - V. Aries, L. Krause, V. Kibalchich, M. Savitskaya.
After the creation of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1918 (later - VUAN), A.V. Starkov in 1921 became one of its full members (in the field of medical biology), an academician of the Department of Anatomy of the Physics and Mathematics Department of the Academy of Sciences. In the same year, he organized a laboratory at the Academy to study the central nervous system; On July 1, 1921, a commission was established at the Academy to study the central nervous system under the guidance of Academician A.V. Starkov.
In 1922, academician A.V. Starkov was forced to leave his homeland. The fact was that in Voronezh , father-in-law Starkov, a mechanical engineer of the Kiev-Voronezh Railway, who collaborated with the Volunteer Army and Starkov, was arrested, and without waiting for an arrest, immediately left his family in Kiev with Korosten , and from there through forests and swamps, with two young children, made his way to Poland for about three weeks. For 5 months he lived in Pinsk, where he was engaged in private medical practice, until in January 1923 this activity was forbidden to him. He had to move to Prague, where until 1925 he taught as a professor in the Department of Biology of the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute . In 1923, he was elected a mediator between the SUAI and the public organizations of Czechoslovakia; became a freelance academician of the SUA. Since 1925, he was a professor at Riga University .
In 1925, the first Ukrainian biology textbook “Zagalna Biologiya”, a book by Professor Starkov, “General Biology (Chemical and Physical Substrates of Life. General Concept of the Cell)” was published in Prague in Prague.
He died on the night of December 18-19, 1927 on the Vienna-Rome train. Buried in Rome .
Proceedings
- Etiology and pathological anatomy of a muscular torticollis: the Dissertation. - M., 1900 .-- 135 s.
- Anatomy of the rectum and muscles related to it. Literary and anatomical research. - T. 1. - M., 1912. - 519 p. [one]
- Anatomy of fascia and fiber of the pelvis. - T. 2. - M., 1912.
- Zagalna biology. - Prague, 1925. (Ukrainian)
- Osteology. - Prague, 1925.
- Research on the nerves of the heart. - Prague, 1946.
As a surgeon, Starkov owns a new method of hip enzarticulation, used clinically in the Golitsyn hospital and in the hospital surgical clinic of Moscow University.
Notes
- ↑ For this work, Starkov was awarded the Conference of the Military Medical Academy Prize. P.A. Zagorsky.
Literature
- Volkov V.A., Kulikova M.V. Moscow professors of the 18th - early 20th centuries. Natural and technical sciences. - M .: Janus-K; Moscow textbooks and cartolithography, 2003. - S. 224-225. - 294 p. - 2,000 copies. - ISBN 5-8037-0164-5.