Timkovsky, Ivan Osipovich

Ivan Osipovich Timkovsky (1768-1837), current state adviser , doctor of medicine, censor , director of gymnasiums and schools of the St. Petersburg province.

He received his secondary education at the Moscow University Grammar School, where he entered in August 1781. After graduating from the gymnasium, he was accepted as a student at the Medical Faculty of Moscow University ; in November 1791 he was examined in St. Petersburg at the medical college, after which he was given the right to submit a dissertation. Owing to his illness, he exercised this right only after a year and a half, when he presented the dissertation to the medical college: “ De structura ventriculi ejusque functione ”; On December 19, 1793 he was recognized as a doctor of medicine and was appointed to the Moscow Military Hospital in excess of the set.

In July 1795 he was appointed a doctor in the Irkutsk governorate. Having stayed here for a year and a half, he asked for transfer to the Moscow Military Hospital, at least in excess of the state and without a salary, which was satisfied in September 1797. In February 1800, at his own request, he was transferred to the Petersburg “physicist” without a salary, which he began to receive only from 1802

In 1804 he was appointed St. Petersburg censor and remained in this position until 1821. He also managed hospitals in both capitals. In 1810, he was awarded a diamond ring and the Order of St. Anne of Class II for diligence in his service ^[2] . In 1811 he was appointed caretaker of free-of-charge boarding houses in St. Petersburg, and then director of the gymnasiums and schools of the St. Petersburg province, remained in this position until 1822. In 1817 he was also appointed a member of the military commission of teaching aids to the cantonists of the settlement troops, and in 1819 - Member of the Academic Council at the St. Petersburg Teacher’s University Institute. He was dismissed from service in a physicist in 1827. He died in Petersburg on April 4, 1837.

Translated from French by “The Doctor of Secular People”, Op. Tissot (Moscow 1792) and placed the article “Togurak-Seife” (1832, No. 21) in the Pharmaceutische Zentralblatt. As a censor, Timkovsky did not permit the publication of A.S. Pushkin ’s poem, "The Mermaid," but permitted seventeen of his poems in 1817-1820, as well as Ruslana and Lyudmila. Pushkin mentions him as a censor in the epigram: " Timkovsky reigned ... " (1824) and in the " Second Message to the Censor ."