Bronner, Wolf Moiseevich

Born into a peasant family. Since 1894 he studied at Tomsk University , but in 1899 he was expelled for participating in student unrest, after which he left for Berlin . He managed to successfully pass a doctoral exam at the University of Berlin in 1900 and at the same time defend a thesis for a doctor of medicine. In the same year he returned to Russia, passed the state exam at Kazan University and became a certified doctor ^[1] .

In 1902 he returned to Berlin, then he joined the local Social Democratic organization. At the end of 1902 he returned to Tomsk , where he took part in the organization of the Iskra-ist group. In 1903 - member of the Siberian Social-Democrats Union and member of the Tomsk Committee.

In 1904 he joined the ranks of the Bolsheviks . At the beginning of 1906 he emigrated to Paris , took an active part in the emigrant box office and the Paris group of the Bolsheviks.

In 1913 he illegally returned to Russia. Arrested in the old case - for calling in 1905 to organize an armed uprising in Tomsk - sentenced to a year of solitary confinement.

After his release, he took up scientific and practical medical activities.

Since 1918 he worked in the People's Commissariat of Health . With his participation, the first special institute in the republic (named after him) was created for the training of venereologists and experimental work on the study of sexually transmitted diseases ^[2] .

From 1924 to 1932 - Head. department of higher medical education of the People's Commissariat for Education and a member of the board of Glavprofobra .

In May 1928, at the request of the People's Commissariat of Health, the Burtsik Central Executive Committee assigned the name of Professor V. M. Bronner to the Verkhneudinsky Venereological Dispensary ^[3] .

In the years 1931-1935 - head. Department of Skin and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, TsIU Doctors. At the same time (1932-1937), director of the State Venereological Institute (which bore his name), head of the foreign department of the USSR People's Commissariat of Health .

Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1934 ^[4] ), Hero of Health Labor (1923).

Arrested on October 23, 1937 on charges of espionage and participation in a terrorist organization. Shot March 7, 1939. He was buried in a common grave at the Don cemetery . Rehabilitated in April 1956

He was the initiator of the publication of the journal Venereology and Dermatology and his first responsible editor in 1924-1937. He took part in the creation of the Big Medical Encyclopedia in its first edition as editor of the Venereology department ^[5] .

His wife, Elena Borisovna Bronner , nee Fuchsman - the daughter of a Siberian merchant, studied with V. M. Bronner in Berlin, and began revolutionary activities with him; after in 1921-1928 headed the sanatorium TSEKUBu in Kislovodsk .

The eldest daughter, Vera Vulfovna Bronner (1904-1997), a dietitian.

The middle daughter, Nelly Wolfovna Bronner (1913-1943), is an economist.

The son, Boris Vulfovich Bronner (1916-1991), is a communications engineer, an employee of the Central Telegraph and the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, the author of several books and textbooks.

• Bronner V.M. About ringworm and scab: For educators, educators and parents. Sep. dignity drift Nar com Health M: State. ed., 1921.
• Bronner V.M. The influence of social factors on the growth of sexually transmitted diseases and the role of the state in the fight against these diseases. M., 1921.
• Bronner V.M. The situation and prospects of the fight against sexually transmitted diseases in the Republic // Proceedings of the 1st All-Russian Congress on the fight against sexually transmitted diseases. M., 1924.
• Bronner V.M. How to deal with syphilis in the village: Conversation for peasants. M: Publishing House of the NKZ, 1925.
• Bronner V.M. The freak hangs out . - Musko: USSR-s Kalyk 'osly Shoret Knigapotton, 1926. - 46 p. (Udmurt language)
• Bronner V.M., Elistratov A.I. Prostitution in Russia. - M.: People's Commissar of the RSFSR, 1927.
• Bronner V.M. Venereal urmatne . - Moscow: Central Publishing House of Peoples S. S. S. R., 1927. - 34 p. (Moksha language)
• Bronner VM Ueber die venerischen Krankheiten: Populäre Abhandlung. Deutsch von K. Hintze. M .: Zentralverlag der Völker der Sowjetunion, 1927.
• Bronner V.M. Pedicia Ormado (Venereal Ormado) . - Moscow: USSR-en Narotnen Centrizdatos, 1929 .-- 26 p. (Erzyan language)
• The main objectives of the summer practice of medical students in medical rural areas / Head. Glavprofobrom Vyshinsky. Head. Sep. medits. form. B. Bronner. - Moscow: publishing house of the First Moscow. state University, 1929 (19th type. "Mospoligrafa").
• Bronner V.M. Prostitution and ways to eliminate it. L .: GMI, 1931.
• Bronner V.M. Tripper and the fight against him / V.M. Bronner. M .; L .: Ogiz - state. honey. ed., 1931.
• Bronner V.M. Sexually transmitted diseases. M .; L., 1933.
• Teberda: A Guide / Under the General Ed. Prof. V.M. Bronner. [M.]: Mosk. House of Scientists, 1934 (type. Publishing House "Peasants. Gas.").
• Simplified methods of serodiagnosis of syphilis: [Collection of articles] / Ed. and since Honored Scientist prof. V. M. Bronner; [Introduction: S. L. Shirvindt]. - M .; L .: Biomedgiz, 1936.
• IV All-Union Congress to Combat Venereal and Skin Diseases. Moscow January 27 - February 2, 1937: Program of studies and theses / Ed. ed. V.M. Bronner. People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR. M .: 1 gas. type of. Mosoblpolygraph, 1937.

• Collection dedicated to the twenty-fifth anniversary of scientific and social activities prof. V.M. Bronner / Resp. ed. prof. N.S. Efron and prof. R.M. Front bracket; Repl. sec. Dr. M.A. Zaigraev. M .: Narkomzdrav; Glavnauka, 1926.
• Aruin M.I. Wolf Moiseevich Bronner 1876-1937 // Bolshevik doctors - builders of Soviet health care / Ed. E.I. Lotova and B.D. Petrova. - M., 1970 .-- S. 240.
• Bashkuev V. Yu. V. M. Bronner and his contribution to the healing of the Buryat people // Power . - 2013. - No. 7. - C. 181-183.
• Bashkuev V.Yu. The Formation of Soviet Health Care and the Health Problem of National Minorities: V. M. Bronner (1876-1939) and Its Role in the Health of the Buryat People // Bulletin of the Buryat Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. - 2013. - No. 2 (10). - S. 83-91.
• Bronner Wolf Moiseevich // Siberian Soviet Encyclopedia . - Novosibirsk: Siberian Regional Publishing House, 1929. - T. 1. A-Zh. - Stb. 394.
• Demjanovich M.P. V.M. Bronner - founder of the State Venereological Institute // Collection dedicated to the 25th anniversary of scientific and social activities prof. V.M. Bronner. - M., 1926 .-- S. 5.
• Mavrov G.I. History of venereology: (message 3) Venereology in Russia and the USSR in the XX century // Dermatology and venereology. - 2009. - No. 3 (45). - 83-101.
• Turanov N.M. Wolf Moiseevich Bronner (on the occasion of his 100th birthday) // Bulletin of Dermatology and Venereology. - 1976. - No. 1. - S. 48-50.

• Alexandrova M. B. Bronner Wolf Moiseevich // Big Medical Encyclopedia (BME) / Ed. B.V. Petrovsky, 3rd edition.
• Bronner Wolf Moiseevich // Martyrology of the executed in Moscow and Moscow region