Alexander Petrovich Walter

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Олександр Петрович Вальтер
Transl. : Oleksandr Petrovyč Val'ter
Transcr. : Oleksandr Petrowytsch Walter
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Александр Петрович Вальтер
Transl .: Aleksandr Petrovič Val'ter
Transcr .: Alexander Petrovich Walter
Alexander P. Walter 1845

Alexander Petrowitsch Walter (also Walther ; * December 28, 1817 July / January 9,  1818 greg. In Reval , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † September 22, July / October 4,  1889 greg. In Warsaw , Poland ) was a Russian and Ukrainian anatomist and physiologist.

Life

Alexander Petrowitsch Walter came from a Baltic German family and went to school in his hometown Reval. From 1836 to 1841 he studied first at the philosophical faculty and then as a student of Nikolai Pirogow at the medical faculty of the University of Dorpat . He then continued his studies at the University of Berlin with the physiologist and anatomist Johannes Müller and in Vienna with Carl von Rokitansky .

In 1843 Walter was adjunct in the department of physiological anatomy and microscopy at the Vladimir University in Kiev , where he was elected associate professor in 1846, having become a doctor of medicine in 1845. In addition to anatomy, he taught physiology from 1862 to 1865, pharmacology between 1859 and 1861, as well as surgery and the history of medicine. Walter was the initiator and the first director of the Anatomical Theater of the Medical Faculty of Kiev University in 1853. He left the university in 1867, but returned to it in 1869 as an adjunct professor of anatomy. Walter founded and operated at his own expense the first medical journal in Ukraine, Sovremennaja medicina ("Modern Medicine") , which appeared between 1860 and 1880 . In 1874 he left the university for good and took the post of medical inspector of civil hospitals in Warsaw. He died there in 1889 and, as he wished, was buried in the Baikowe cemetery in Kiev .

His works were largely devoted to anatomical and physiological aspects, but also dealt with questions of heat production and regulation in the organism of animals. Alexander Walter discovered the vasoconstrictive effect of the sympathetic nerves before Claude Bernard .

Orders and honors

  • 1874 "Real Russian State Council"
  • 1855 Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class
  • 1859 Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class with imperial crown
  • Bronze medal "In memory of the Crimean War 1853-1856"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography Alexander Petrowitsch Walter on Anatom.ua ; accessed on January 9, 2016
  2. ^ Entry on Alexander Petrowitsch Walter in Brockhaus-Efron ; accessed on September 2, 2018 (Russian)
  3. ↑ a b c d e biography WALTHER, Alexander in the personal database of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig ; accessed on September 2, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Alexander Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Вальтер, Александр Петрович (Russian); Walther, Alexander; Walter, Oleksandr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Ukrainian anatomist and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1889
Place of death Warsaw , Congress Poland