Ruvim Manasievich Eiges (at the birth of Ruvin-Itsko Menashe-Niselevich Eiges , at home Roman Mikhailovich ; 1840 [1] , Vilna - April 10, 1926 , Mtsensk ) - Russian doctor, one of the pioneers of anesthesia in Russia, playwright.
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Biography
Born in 1840 in Vilna, he was the eldest child in the family of Mnashe-Neeson (Menashe-Nisel) Itskovich Aiges (1815-1866) and Pesi-Toyba Itsko-Michelevna Aiges (1820-1866), also natives of Vilna [2] . The family lived in Miler’s house on Deutsche Street. Parents suddenly died of cholera - 25 (father) and 28 (mother) on August 1866 in the same place.
July 20, 1870 he graduated from Imperial Moscow University with a medical faculty. He worked as an evacuation doctor in the Kiev military district, during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 under the direction of N. I. Pirogov, conducted ether anesthesia during surgical interventions during the hostilities in Bulgaria [3] .
He served as a zemstvo (then district and city) doctor, successively in Belopol and Bogodukhov in the Kharkov province (1870s), Sudzha in the Kursk province (since 1876), Kromakh , Bryansk (county doctor in 1888) [4] , Livny [5 ] and Mtsensk, Oryol province (city doctor since 1907, from 1917 until the end of his life as an outpatient doctor) [6] . As a college adviser was awarded the personal nobility (1898) [7] [8] , by 1909 he was a state adviser . He was a member of the board of the I. S. Turgenev Library in Mtsensk; he lived with his family in the Fortunatov house on Gorodskaya Street. He was awarded a diploma of the National Hero of Labor [9] .
In 1912, his play from Jewish life, “At the Crossroads,” in six acts with an epilogue [10] , was dedicated to a recently deceased wife, translator Sofya Moiseevna Eiges [11] .
The archive of R. M. Eiges was transferred by his granddaughter to the Houghton Library of Harvard University [12] .
Family
The Eiges family grew 11 children (two of whom died at an early age) [13] :
- Daughters - Ekaterina Romanovna Eiges (1890-1958), poet and library worker, beloved of the poet S. A. Yesenin , was married to the mathematician P. S. Alexandrov [14] ; Anna Romanovna Eiges (1873 / 1874-1966), translator (“The sufferings of young Werther” by Goethe , 1893, 1937; drama “Queen Tamara” by Knut Gamsun , 1908, 1910, 1912) [15] , medical assistant [16] ; Nadezhda Romanovna Eiges (1883-1975), teacher, founder of the first day nursery in Russia.
- Sons - Professor Vladimir Eiges (1876-1949), philosopher and mathematician; Konstantin Eiges , composer; Joseph Eiges (1887-1953), literary critic, musicologist and music teacher; Alexander Eiges (1880-1944), mathematician; Benjamin Eiges (1888-1956), artist; Eugene Eiges (1878-1957), a doctor, in the 1920s worked as an internal medicine specialist at the Medical Advisory Commission No. 2 in Moscow [17] .
Notes
- ↑ In the revision tales for 1851 and 1858, the year of birth is 1842. Name: Ruvin-Itsko Menashe-Niselevich Eiges.
- ↑ Metric records are available on the Jewish Genealogy website JewishGen.org. Parents married one year before the birth of their son - August 13, 1839. The younger sisters Khaya-Pearl (1844) and Leah-Michl (1856) also grew up in the family.
- ↑ Russian Jewish Encyclopedia
- ↑ Zemsky doctors of Bryansk
- ↑ Letter from son, I.R. Eiges, to V.I. Vernadsky with his father's address in Livny (1905)
- ↑ Genealogy of the Eiges family
- ↑ Russian State Historical Archive: College Advisor R. M. Eiges (1898)
- ↑ Memoirs of E. R. Eiges
- ↑ Yakov Stromsky “Two notes in an old newspaper”
- ↑ About Memories of E. R. Eiges
- ↑ Women-writers of Russia
- ↑ Ludmila Gurevich Papers
- ↑ The eldest son Misha (1871–1876) died at the age of five; the eldest daughter Tatyana, born in Belopol (December 3 (15), 1872), died in her youth.
- ↑ Memoirs of E. R. Eiges
- ↑ D.V. Lobacheva. Roman I. V. Goethe “The Suffering of Young Werther”
- ↑ L. P. Menshchikov “Protection and Revolution”
- ↑ Address of VKK No. 2: 2nd Kozhevnichesky Lane, 8.