Isaak Grigoryevich Orschansky

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Isaak Grigorjewitsch Orschanski ( Russian Исаак Григорьевич Оршанский ; * 1851 in Yekaterinoslav , † 1923 ) was a Russian psychiatrist and university professor ( University of Kharkiv ).

Life

Orschanski was the brother of the Russian lawyer and historian Ilya Grigorjewitsch Orschanski (1846-1875). He studied medicine in Moscow , completed an internship in Leipzig , did his doctorate in St. Petersburg and was a military doctor in the Russo-Ottoman War in 1876 . He then returned to St. Petersburg, where he published a book on sleep and wakefulness in 1878 . From 1879 to 1881 he headed the psychiatric department of a hospital in Yekaterinoslav . He then studied nervous and mental diseases in Berlin and Leipzig and in Paris with Jean-Martin Charcot for a year and a half . In 1884 he was appointed lecturer at the University of Kharkiv , which was followed by several stays abroad in the laboratories of luminaries in his field. In 1892 he published his Etude sur L'hérédité normal et pathologique , for which he received the title of professor in 1894. He was awarded the Makarius Bulgakow Prize for his services .

In 1903 he published in German The Inheritance in Healthy and Diseased States and the Origin of Gender in Man .

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  1. All dates in this article are based on the Gregorian calendar unless otherwise noted .
  2. Orshanski, Ilya in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 12, Col. 1480f.