Abelman, Maurice Lvovich

Born in the Jewish family of the Kovensky merchant Lev Zusmanovich (Boruch Leib) Abelman (1841-1903) and his wife Hana Abelman. In 1885, a merchant of the first guild engaged in the wholesale of sugar, L. Z. Abelman overcame the Pale of Settlement and received the right to live with his family in the capital ^[3] .

By this time, his eldest son Maurice managed to graduate from the Coven gymnasium and, taking advantage of his father's social status , entered the medical faculty of Imperial University of Derpt in 1883 , where those professing Judaism studied infrequently in those years ^[4] .

M. L. Abelman was released as a doctor in 1889 ^[5] and, as a graduate of the university with honors, was sent to the clinic of a recognized specialist in the study of pathology of the stomach and pancreas, Professor Bernhard Naunin , for further improvement and preparation of the dissertation research in Strasbourg . In the context of the scientific interests of the leader, M. L. Abelmann's thesis was entitled: Über die Ausnutzung der Nahrungsstoffe nach Pankreasextirpation: mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Lehre von der Fettresorption (“On the absorption of nutrients after removal of the pancreas with a discussion of the theory of fat absorption”) ^{[6 ]} . In this experimental work, carried out with the participation of one of the founders of diabetology, Professor Oscar Minkowski and devoted to the study of intestinal malabsorption ( malabsorption ) that occurs after extirpation of the pancreas, the leading role of the pancreas in the process of fat absorption was proved. The defense of the dissertation with the assignment of the doctor of medicine degree to the applicant took place the very next year at the University of Derpt.

In 1891, M. L. Abelman , a private practitioner, began his activities in St. Petersburg. In the capital, he began to be called first Moses, and later Boris Lvovich. In 1893, M. L. Abelman was accepted as a supernumerary resident of the Elizabethan Clinical Hospital for young children. Included in the system of departments of the institutions of Empress Maria , she was one of the leading children's hospitals in the city, led by the famous St. Petersburg pediatrician, Professor Vladimir Nikolaevich Reitz . With his direct participation, Maurice Lvovich was formed into one of the most popular pediatricians in the capital. For a long time, not holding high posts and only in 1905, enrolled as a junior doctor of the hospital, M. L. Abelman very quickly gained authority among his colleagues.

In addition to clinical activities, Maurice Lvovich conducted extensive research work. He regularly made presentations at meetings of the St. Petersburg Society of Pediatric Doctors, where he served on the board and was elected to the post of comrade of the chairman.

The main scientific interests of M. L. Abelman lay in the plane of studying the pathology of the kidneys in children. He organized regular scientific and practical medical conferences on the issues of pediatric nephrology. Addressed to the staff of the Elizabethan hospital, they soon became very popular among pediatricians in the capital. In 1906, under the title "Jade Children, Their Dietetics and Treatment", the materials of many such conversations with the hospital doctors were published by M. L. Abelman in the form of a monograph. In fact, at the very beginning of the 20th century, Maurice Lvovich laid the foundations of pediatric nephrology, which stood out as an independent discipline only a few decades later.

In 1908, M. L. Abelman was invited to be a doctor of the largest in the empire insurance company "Russia" . Without leaving his job at the Elizabethan hospital, he became interested in a new business for himself and two years later he took up the position of head doctor in society.

Initially, the tasks of the medical service of the insurance company consisted in examining the causes and extent of the damage caused to health upon the occurrence of an insured event. With the approval by the III State Duma of the law “On Workers' Insurance in the Event of Sickness and Accidents” in 1912, prerequisites appeared in Russia for creating a health insurance system . One of the first M. L. Abelman made an attempt to develop the concept of voluntary health insurance. It was not necessary to put it into practice. First, the First World War prevented, then, after the October Revolution , the insurance system was completely destroyed.

Additional burdens during the war years became for Maurice Lvovich participation in the work of the Russian Red Cross Society , as well as in mobilization affairs. His activities were marked by awards and rewards.

In all the meager biographical references dedicated to M. L. Abelman, it is indicated that he died either in 1917 or in 1919 . Indeed, after the revolution, he practically stopped communicating with his colleagues, but did not interrupt his medical activities. In 1920, after Professor E. E. Gartier went abroad , Maurice Lvovich was even elected professor of the Department of Childhood Diseases at the State Institute of Medical Knowledge (later known as the Leningrad Sanitary and Hygienic Medical Institute ), but did not take up his post. The last time Maurice Lvovich made a report at the Society of Pediatric Physicians in Petrograd in June 1921 . It is known that until 1927, inclusive, he worked in a modest position as an ordinary doctor at the Center for Maternal and Infant Protection No. 1 of the Central District ^[7] , after which his last name disappeared from all directories. With a high degree of probability it can be argued that M. L. Abelman died in Leningrad in 1928 , since a year later a completely different person lived at his address. The place of his repose could not be established.

There is an alternative but not documented version, according to which M. L. Abelman emigrated abroad, where he died almost immediately.

• Wife: Maria Veniaminovna Abelman;
• Brother: Tobias L. Abelman - chemical engineer, graduate of the Riga Polytechnic Institute in 1892 ;
• Sisters:

Shane Abelman;

Maria Abelman ^[8]

The exact number of scientific works of M. L. Abelman could not be established. Many of them were published in German. Below is a small list of those publications that remain available to the reader:

• Abelmann M. Über die Ausnutzung der Nahrungsstoffe nach Pankreasextirpation: mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Lehre von der Fettresorption / Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doctors der Medicin. - Dorpat: Druck von C. Mattiesen, 1890 . - 80 p.
• Abelman M. L. Cases of bronchiectasia developed under the influence of whooping cough / From Elizabeth. children hospitals. - St. Petersburg: type. M.M. Stasyulevich, 1893 . - 11 p.
• Abelman M. L. On the doctrine of cyclic albuminuria. - St. Petersburg: type. K.L. Ricker, 1897 . - 12 p.
• Abelman M. L. Tetania, laryngospasm and their relation to the English disease / From Elizabeth. wedge. hospitals for young children. - St. Petersburg: type. M.M. Stasyulevich, 1898 . - 18 p.
• Abelman M. L. In memory of V.N. Reitz / dokl., Cheat. in a meeting of the island of children. Doctors in St. Petersburg, October 13. 1904 - St. Petersburg: Electrical Printing of J. Krovitsky, 1904 . - 16 p.
• Abelman M. L. Jades of childhood, their dietetics and treatment. / Conversations with doctors of the therapeutic department of the Elizabethan Clinical Hospital for young children, Dr. M. L. Abelman - resident of the hospital. - Petrograd: “Electrically printing” by Y. I. Krovitsky, 1906 . - 103 p.
• Abelman M. L. Natural and artificial feeding of infants / Dr. med. M.L. Abelman, horde Elizabeth wedge. hospitals for youngsters. children in St. Petersburg. - St. Petersburg: type. 1st St. Petersburg. work. artels, 1909 . - 65 p.
• Abelman M. L. Functional diagnostics in chronic kidney diseases / dokl., Cheat. in the island of children. doctors in St. Petersburg April 23. 1914 - Petrograd: Tipo-lit. K. Feldman, 1914 . - 23 p.
• Abelman M. L. Diagnosis and prognosis of congenital heart defects. - Pediatrics, 1914 , No. 8-9. - 95-112 s.
• Abelman M. L., Kisel A. A., Maslov M. S., Lunin N. I., Mochan V. O. Collection of childhood diseases / Ed. M. L. Abelman (Leningrad), prof. A. A. Kiselya (Moscow), prof. M.S. Maslova et al. - L .: O-det. doctors in Leningrad, 1925 . - 64 p.
• Abelman M. L. Clinic of childhood diseases / Sat. Art. under the editorship of prof. V.O. Mochan, M.L. Abelman (Leningrad), prof. A. A. Kisel (Moscow) and others. - L .: Pract. medicine, 1926-1927 .

Reports at meetings of the Society of Pediatric Doctors

Case of lung gangrene	03/09/1894	To the doctrine of cyclic albuminuria	12/17/1896
In memory of V. N. Reitz	10/13/1904	To the doctrine of the absorption and absorption of fat in jaundice	03/28/1906
Observations of Vertical Albuminuria	03/28/1906	A Case of Based Disease (Dem.)	03/28/1906
Acute yellow atrophy of the liver	12/13/1906	Urobilinuria with typhoid fever and pneumonia	09/26/1907
To the pathology of intestinal administration in childhood	10/08/1908	Enzymes and antiferments of feces	11/04/1909
Modern doctrine of the role of mineral salts	04/27/1911	Functional diagnosis of chronic kidney disease	04/23/1913
Functional diagnosis of scarlet fever glomerulonephritis	12/22/1920	Chronic pedonephritis	04/29/1921

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After arriving in the capital, M. L. Abelman lived with his parents first on Officer Street. , d. 26, and since 1892 at the address: English Ave. , d. 31.

Since 1898 , after marriage, Maurice Lvovich rented an apartment in building 65 on Ekaterinforsky Ave. , and since 1913 on the street. Glinka , house 1 ( embankment of the Moika river , house 100). At this address he continued to live after the revolution until 1927 .

• Order of St. Stanislav , 2nd century;
• Order of St. Anne , 2nd Art. (1905);
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd Art. for special merits in mobilization (1914);
• medal "In memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III" ;
• a sign in memory of the 100th anniversary of the department of institutions of the Empress Maria ;
• red cross sign

In October 1893, then still beginning doctor M. L. Abelman took part in the unsuccessful treatment of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and witnessed the untimely death of the composer ^[10] .

• St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Pediatricians of Russia

• Abelmann Moses on the site "Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig" ;
• Abelman Moses Lvovich on the site "Russian Imperial Army" ;
• Krylov-Tolstikovich A.N. Abelman Moris Lvovich / Russian doctors of the 18th - early 20th centuries
• Short biography of M. L. Abelman / Manuscript archive of academician M. S. Maslov , stored at the Department of Children's Diseases of the Military Medical Academy.