Karl Eduard Miram
Karl Eduard Miram ( Ukrainian Едуард Ернестович Мірам Eduard Ernestowytsch Miram , Russian Эдуард Эрнестович Мирам Eduard Ernestowitsch Miram * August 5 . Jul / 17th August 1811 greg. In Mitau , Courland Governorate , Russian Empire , † March 24 jul. / 5 April 1887 greg. In Kiev , Kyiv Gouvernement , Russian Empire) was a Russian physiologist , anatomist and zoologist of German descent.
Life
Karl Eduard Miram was born into a Baltic German merchant family in Mitau, now Jelgava in Latvia . There he attended St. Anne's elementary school for boys and then the local high school, which he graduated in 1829. From 1829 to 1831 he studied at the Mediko-Surgical Academy (MCA) in Saint Petersburg and from 1831 to 1833 at the University of Dorpat . During his studies in Dorpat he taught natural history at the boys' boarding school there. Between 1833 and 1836 he worked at the MCA in Vilnius as an assistant to the prosector and completed his medical studies as a doctor. Between 1837 and 1840 he was employed as a prosector for comparative anatomy and adjunct professor at the MCA in Vilnius and then continued his education in Germany, France, England and Switzerland until 1840. He returned to Vilna via Königsberg in June / July 1842. There he received his doctorate from the MCA in 1842 as Dr. med. and in the same year Dr. med. et chir. at the Königsberg University .
He then went to St. Vladimir University in Kiev, where between 1842 and 1843 he was associate professor of physiology of healthy people and physiology of sick people, at the same time gave lectures in zoology and was head of the zoological cabinet at Kiev University . In 1843 he was appointed full professor at the chair for physiology of healthy people, which he remained until 1862. In 1854 he was also dean of the Medical Faculty of St. Vladimir University until 1862. From 1843 he still worked as a volunteer doctor at the Kiev post office. During the cholera epidemic in Kiev, from 1847 to 1857, he also headed two cholera hospitals as well as several government military hospitals. Most recently he worked as a general practitioner in Kiev from 1862 until the end of his life. In 1887 he died at the age of 75 on his estate near Kiev.
Honors
- 1850 Appointment to the State Council
- 1851 Order of St. Anna 3rd class
- 1853 Order of Saint Annan 2nd class
- 1858 Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class with imperial crown
- 1862 Order of Saint Anna 2nd class with an imperial crown
Web links
- Entry on Eduard Ernestowitsch Miram in Brockhaus-Efron (Russian)
- Article about Eduard Ernestowytsch Miram on the website of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev (Ukrainian)
- Entry on Karl Eduard Miram on kalliope-verbund.info
Individual evidence
- ^ German traces Ukraine - Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University; on the website of the Goethe-Institut ; accessed on August 28, 2018
- ↑ a b c d e f g Tabular curriculum vitae of Karl Eduard Miram in the biobibliographic lexicon of physiologists between Germany and Russia in the 19th century on the website of the Saxon Academy of Sciences ; accessed on August 28, 2018
- ↑ a b Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Karl Eduard Miram. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miram, Karl Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Мірам, Едуард Ернестович (Ukrainian); Мирам, Эдуард Эрнестович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian physiologist, anatomist and zoologist of German descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mitau , Courland Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1887 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire |