Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Vershinin

Nikolai Vasilyevich Vershinin ( Russian Николай Васильевич Вершинин ; born January 15 ^{. Jul} / 27. January  1867 ^greg. In the village Lekomskoje, Ujesd Slobodskoi ; † 6. April 1951 in Tomsk ) was a Russian pharmacologist and university lecturer .

Life

Vershinin lost his father Vasily Jakowlewitsch Vershinin, who was a country teacher and psalmist, at an early age, so that he grew up at the expense of the state. He attended the spiritual school in Nolinsk and the spiritual seminary in Vyatka , graduating in 1887. He then worked as a country teacher in Ujesd Malmysch . In 1889 he began studying at the medical faculty of Tomsk University (TGU), which he graduated with honors in 1894. During his studies he participated in the fight against cholera - epidemic in 1892 in Tomsk.

Vershinin stayed at the TGU to do further research. 1895–1907 he was assistant to the prosector , assistant to the chair of pharmacology , to the chair of forensic medicine and other chairs, and he worked in the therapeutic faculty clinic. 1900–1902 he did military service as a military doctor in the Omsk Siberian Infantry Regiment . In 1904 he defended his dissertation on the toxicity of human urine . The subsequent doctorate in medical science saved him from being drafted into the Russo-Japanese War . Nevertheless, he went to the front in Manchuria with the 8th Tomsk Siberian Infantry Regiment . He ran a field hospital and became chief bacteriologist of all hospitals in Harbin . For his work in the fight against typhoid and dysentery epidemics , he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus III. Class and the Order of Saint Anne III. Class excellent. In the hospital in Mukden he met Nadezhda Vladimirovna Schirschowa (1875-1911) know, whom he married in 1905.

Back in Tomsk in 1907, Vershinin was appointed private lecturer at the Faculty of Therapeutic Clinic. In 1908, as a representative of Pawel Woizechowitsch Burschinski, he became head of the chair for pharmacology and balneology at the TGU, which he headed until his death. He was given a large room for the pharmacological laboratory and bought modern manuals and textbooks, reagents and medicinal preparations. He did internships in clinics and laboratories in Berlin , Vienna , Paris , Geneva and Heidelberg . In Heidelberg he examined adrenaline and other preparations for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases with Rudolf Gottlieb . After the death of his first wife, he married Marija Petrovna Wytnowa (1876-1958), daughter of the Tomsk entrepreneur and patron Pyotr Vasilyevich Wytnow (1847-1902).

Vershinin's grave in the Tomsk South Cemetery

When the German army used poison gas on its eastern front during World War I, Vershinin went to the Russian Northwest Front to the 13th Army at the request of the Red Cross to organize aid for the poison gas victims. With the results of his investigations he made a report for which he received the Order of St. Anne II. Class. In 1915 he brought out the textbook on pharmacology as the basis of therapy , which saw 11 new editions. Following the example of his teacher Burschinsky, he took part in the development of the health resorts of Western Siberia . Together with Mikhail Georgievich Kurlow , Vershinin examined medicinal springs and lakes. In 1915 his report on health resorts, medicinal waters and mud baths was published at the Congress for the Improvement of the Patriotic Health Resorts. He continued these investigations after the October Revolution .

In 1921, Vershinin was also elected head of the Department of Pharmacology at the Omsk Medical Institute, where he gave lectures on pharmacology and forensic toxicology . Under his guidance, his students made synthetic camphor from fir oil . For the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, he studied the properties of thimbles , meadow buttons and other plants. He was a member of the Scientific District Council for Health Care, the Committee for Pharmacology, the Commission for Industrial Organization in Tomsk and a permanent advisor to the pharmaceutical manufacturers of Western Siberia. In 1930 he gave up the chair in Omsk. During the German-Soviet War he continued the investigations into the properties of Siberian medicinal herbs , which had already been started in World War I, together with Viktor Vladimirovich Rewerdatto . In 1945 Vershinin became a full member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR . In 1947 he received together with Rewerdatto and Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Jablokow for the development and application of new extraction methods for the production of medicines from the medicinal plants of Siberia the Stalin Prize 2nd class.

Vershinin died of a pulmonary embolism and was buried in the Tomsk South Cemetery. His grave is part of the national cultural heritage .

Honors, prizes

• Order of Saint Stanislaus III. Class, II class
• Russian Order of Saint Anne III. Class, II class
• Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1934)
• Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Stalin Prize 2nd class (1947)
• Order of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Vershinin in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} ПлотниковЕ.В., РонжинС.Г. - Plotnikov Ye.V., Ronzhin SG: НиколайвасильевичВершинин: основныевехинаучно-педагогическойивоеннойскойивоеннойбevиографии - Nikolai Vershinin. Scientific and military biography: main educational-milestones . In: Бюллетень сибирской медицины . No. 3 , p. 122–126 ( archive.org [PDF; accessed June 22, 2019]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Кировская областная научная медицинская библиотека: Вершинин Николай Васильевич (accessed June 22, 2019).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Центр по охране памятников: Могила Н.В. Вершинина (accessed June 22, 2019).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Некрылов С. А .: История становления и развития научных школ и направлений в Томском университете в дореволюционный период . Tomsk 2001 ( tsu.ru [accessed June 22, 2019]).
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Крылов Г. В .: Травы жизни и их искатели . Novosibirsk 1972.
6. ↑ Старцев А. В., Скубневский В. А., Зиновьев В. П .: Деловая элита старой Сибири: исторические очерки . 2005.