Bets, Vladimir Alekseevich

He studied first at Nezhinskaya , and then at the 2nd Kiev gymnasium, which he graduated in 1853. In 1860 he graduated from the University of Kiev at the Faculty of Medicine with a doctor’s degree and was identified as an assistant to a prosector at the Department of Anatomy, then worked as a prosector. From May 1861 to September 1862 he was sent abroad, where he studied and attended lectures by professors Brücke , Ludwig , Bunsen , Kelliker , Kirchhoff and Helmholtz . Doctoral dissertation - "On blood circulation in the liver" (1863). From 1864 to 1867 he taught the course of human anatomy in natural sciences and histology at the medical faculties, as well as special courses in anatomy of the nervous system and analytical chemistry. In 1868 he was approved as extraordinary, and in 1870 - an ordinary professor in the department of anatomy. For the preparation of preparations of the human brain, he was twice awarded medals (in 1870 at the All-Russian Manufacturing Exhibition and in 1873 at the World Exhibition in Vienna) and received very flattering reviews from the famous anatomist Professor Girtl .

He took an active part in the public life of Kiev. One of the founders of the Kiev Society of Nature Explorers. In 1890, Professor V. A. Betz resigned as head of the Department of Anatomy of the University of St. Vladimir and resigned. Remaining a consultant on nervous diseases of the Kiev Kirill Hospital (Psychiatric Hospital named after Academician I.P. Pavlov), until the end of his days V.A. Bets worked as the chief physician of the South-Western Railway.

The author of about 50 scientific papers. The main direction of scientific research: anatomy and histology of the central nervous system. In 1874, Vladimir Alekseevich described the giant pyramidal neurons of the primary motor cortex of the brain, later called Betz cells . ^[2] Vladimir Alekseevich Betz - the founder of the doctrine of the cytoarchitectonics of the brain. He developed an original methodology for the manufacture of anatomical preparations, collected over 8,000 preparations of the human and animal brain. He discovered the chromafin reaction of the adrenal medulla. Studied human embryogenesis and bone growth.

Director of the Anatomical Theater in Kiev . Full member of the Imperial Society of lovers of science, the Imperial Society of lovers of nature, corresponding member of the Paris Anthropological Society, an authorized member of the Leipzig Ethnographic Museum.

Vladimir Alekseevich was an unsurpassed master in the manufacture of anatomical preparations. Under the microscope, he made the thinnest incisions of cells. For the collection of brain preparations, which was exhibited in St. Petersburg in 1870, he was awarded a silver medal. The unique collection was valued at 7,000 Austrian guilders, but the owner categorically refused to sell it, and later presented it to Kiev University. ^[3]

• The Big Silver Medal (Petersburg, 1870)
• Medal "For Successes" (Vienna, 1873)

• "On blood circulation in the liver" (dissertation for the degree of doctor of medicine , Kiev , 1863 );
• “A new method for studying the central nervous system of man” (“ Notes of the Kiev Society of Naturalists ”, 1870 and “Archiv von Max Schultze”, 1870 );
• “On the grouping of the convolutions of the human brain” (“ Notes of the Kiev Society of Naturalists ”, 1871 );
• "Das Gesetz der Vertheilung der Gyri und Sulci der menschlichen Gehirnoberfläche" ("Sitzber. Der Wiener Psychiatren");
• “Two centers in the human cerebral cortex” (Moscow Medical Bulletin, 1875 );
• " Anatomy of the surface of the human brain, with an atlas and 86 tables" ("University News", 1883 );
• “Historical figures of South-West Russia” (Kiev, 1883 , together with Professor B. A. Antonovich).

• Tombstone with a bust of V.A. Betz - Vydubitsky Monastery , Kiev
• Marinja Lukyan - V. A. Betz - the founder of the doctrine of cytoarchitectonics of the cerebral cortex
• Ivan Ivanovich Bobrik - Anatomist, a clear view of the path of neurology and psychiatry
• Betz, Vladimir Alekseevich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.

• "Biographical Dictionary of Professors and Teachers of the Imperial University of St. Vladimir (1834-1884)", K., 1884
• Kukuev L. A. - “Vladimir Alekseevich Betz” // “Neuropathology and Psychiatry”, 1949, v. 18, No. 3
• Kukuev L. - “V. A. Betz ”, M., Medgiz, 1950, 90 pp.
• Pototsky M. - “The teachings of the Holy Rivne, the half-moon of Ukraine” // Leninsky nobility (Kozelets), 1994, 12 years, p. 2
• "Maly dictionary of history of Ukraine", K., 1997
• Kuzminska O. D. - “Bet Volodimir Oleksiyovich”, Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine, K., 2003, p. 247
• Moskalenko V. F., Cherkasov V. G. - “Svitova glory to the Ukrainian anatomist of professor Volodimir Oleksiyovich Betz (until 175th day of the birth of people)”, Science News of NMU im. O. O. Bogomoltsya, 2009, No. 1