Gabrilovich, Nikolay Evgenievich

Born on February 15, 1865 in Ponevezhe of the Russian Empire, now the city of Panevezys in Lithuania, in the Jewish family of a doctor - Yevgeny Osipovich Gabrilovich.

In 1871, the family of Gabrilovich moved to St. Petersburg , where Yevgeny Gabrilovich was assigned by the Covenian governor. Here he specialized in obstetrics , having received the title of obstetrician in 1873. And in 1881, he first became acquainted with homeopathy, and was surprised by the results of its action. In 1883, Nicholas’s father went to Budapest to visit Professor Theodor Bacody (1825–1911), from whom he studied at the Department of Homeopathy at the University of Budapest , which was the only one in Europe at the time. He then worked at a homeopathic clinic in Berlin , and in St. Petersburg joined the Society of Homeopathic Doctors, of which Dr. was also a member .

Nikolai Gabrilovich graduated from the St. Petersburg classical gymnasium and in 1884 entered the Imperial Military Medical Academy , from which he graduated in 1890. Then he specialized in ophthalmology, becoming a student of eye diseases at the Clinical Institute. Here, under the influence of his father, he also showed an interest in homeopathy. In 1892-1894 he worked at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, where in 1893 he defended his scientific work "On the Anatomical Nature of the Vitreous Body", becoming a doctor of medicine. In 1894, Nikolai Gabrilovich joined the St. Petersburg Society of Homeopathic Doctors - from that moment on, his whole life was connected with homeopathy.

At first, Gabrilovich worked at the polyclinic of society, since 1906 - in the homeopathic hospital named after Alexander II, opened in 1898 by the St. Petersburg society of followers of homeopathy, headed by Pavel Solovyov (1854-1911) ^[1] . Since 1912, Gabrilovich was in charge of the men's department of the hospital, and since the spring of 1917 he headed the hospital and the society of homeopathic doctors. After the October Revolution , in April 1918, the Bolsheviks took the hospital from the homeopaths and transferred it to Petrograd radiologists. In the same year, the society of homeopathic doctors ceased to exist.

During the Civil War, Nikolai Gabrilovich changed many places of work, and only at the beginning of 1920 he returned to homeopathic practice. In 1923, he took part in the re-establishment of a society of homeopathic doctors in the country; from 1923 to 1926, he headed the Leningrad Society of Homeopathic Doctors. In 1928, 1932 and 1936, Gabrilovich was elected vice-president of the International Homeopathic League, however, he failed to attend the League congresses due to the position of the Soviet government towards homeopathy. In the autumn of 1937, when the fate of homeopathy in the USSR was once again decided, N. E. Gabrilovich together with other homeopaths of the country, took part in the meetings of the Medical Scientific Council under the USSR People's Commissariat of Health, proving the right of homeopathy to exist. And homeopathy in the USSR survived.

In 1932, the first wife of Gabrilovich died, Olga Sergeyevna, with whom he lived for many years. Soon he married again, but this marriage was short because of his death.

N. E. Gabrilovich died on May 27, 1941 in Moscow, where he came to give lectures on homeopathy. He was buried at the Shuvalovsky cemetery of Leningrad . The documents that remained after the death of Gabrilovich were saved by his widow, L. E. Gabrilovich-Maslova (1894-1985), and transferred in February 1990 to the State Archive of the Russian Federation by her son, S. Maslov. The archive of N. Gabrilovich contains 355 documents.

Nikolai Gabrilovich was a friend of Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky . ^[2]

• NIKOLAY GABRILOVICH (1865-1941)
• Nikolay Gabrilovich and the Russian homeopathic community