Rudnev, Vladimir Ivanovich (psychiatrist)

Born in 1870 in Novocherkassk in the family of a priest.

From the age of six he studied at the parish school, at the age of nine - at the classical gymnasium. In 1891 he entered the medical faculty of Kazan University .

After graduating from university in 1897–1900, he worked as an intern at the clinic of nervous and mental diseases at Kiev University . In 1900, Rudnev moved to Odessa , became an intern at the city psychiatric hospital, having worked there until 1910 . Here in 1905 he defended his doctoral thesis "On trembling in nervous and mental diseases."

He was fond of the history of medicine, worked with historical sources in the Acropolis and the National Museums of Greece, in Egypt (in Cairo) studied the medical literature and mummies of the pharaohs , in Turkey studied the monuments of Byzantine medicine. He made study tours to Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland.

In 1910, Rudnev moved from Odessa to Saratov , where he was appointed director of a local psychiatric hospital. In 1914 he was elected assistant professor of the Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases, in 1918 - Professor of the Department of History and Encyclopedia of Medicine of Saratov University and at the same time Professor of Forensic Psychopathology at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

In 1924, Vladimir Ivanovich moved to Uzbekistan . There he was elected professor of the department of psychiatry of the medical faculty of the Central Asian State University , at the same time a professor of forensic psychopathology and a professor of defectology at the eastern faculty of the university. In 1928 he moved to Baku and was elected a professor of nervous and mental diseases of the Azerbaijan University .

From 1932 to 1939, Rudnev was on an academic pension, continued to work on the translation of the works of Hippocrates . ^[1] Since 1939, he headed the Department of Psychiatry at the Samarkand Medical Institute. I.P.Pavlova. In 1945-1950, he taught a course on the history of medicine at this institute.

In 1950 he retired on disability. He died in Samarkand in 1951 .

V.I. Rudnev investigated various problems of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, neurophysiology, neuropathology, history of medicine, physiology, philosophy. He attached great importance to the harmonic synthesis of philosophical and medical knowledge. Author of over 50 articles on various problems of psychiatry, neuropathology, psychoanalysis, neurophysiology, history of medicine, etc. ^[2]

He is the author of several articles on psychoanalysis:

• "The psychology of the blind" (1910),
• "Psychology of dreams" (1915),
• "On Hippocratic Dreams" (1916),
• "Psychological analysis of the" Ghosts "Turgenev" (1924).

Interesting fact

For 45 years, the painstaking ascetic creative work of Professor V.I. Rudnev on the translation from Greek into Russian of the works of the great ancient physician Hippocrates continued. It began even before 1905 , when the Aphorisms and the first 24 articles were translated into Russian.

On August 8, 1937, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician V.L. Komarov welcomed V.I. Rudnev in a specially sent letter with the words: ^[1]

“Published in your translation, the volume of the works of Hippocrates is an extremely valuable tool, as it prompts the correct resolution of many medical issues. Both the doctor and the philosopher will find in him a lot of valuable things for themselves. ”

• He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (10.21.1945), and medals, including "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" and "For valiant work in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Honored Scientist of the Uzbek SSR (1945).

• Rudnev Vladimir Ivanovich
• PROFESSOR V. I. RUDNEV - NEUROPATOLOGIST, PSYCHIATR, HISTORIAN MEDICINE