Vladimir Afanassjewitsch Karawajew

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Volodymyr Karavaev

Vladimir Afanassjevitch Karavayev ( Russian Владимир Афанасьевич Караваев , Ukrainian Володимир Опанасович Караваєв Volodymyr Opanassowytsch Karavayev ; born July 8 . Jul / 20th July  1811 greg. In Vyatka , Vyatka Governorate , Russian Empire , † March 3 jul. / 15. March  1892 greg. in Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire) was a Russian - Ukrainian surgeon and ophthalmologist .

Life

Vladimir Karawajew was born in Vyatka, today's Kirov in the Oblast of the Russian Federation of the same name as the son of a merchant family. After graduating from high school in 1827, he studied at the medical faculty of the Imperial University of Kazan , which he graduated in 1831 with a silver medal and a diploma. After graduating, he moved to the then Russian capital Saint Petersburg and worked there from 1832 to 1833 as a doctor in a military hospital and then from 1833 to 1834 as a surgeon in Saint Petersburg's Marien Hospital.

In order to further improve his surgical knowledge, he went to Germany for two years from 1834 and worked here with well-known surgeons such as Johann Nepomuk Rust , Karl von Graefe , Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach , Karl Gustav Jung , Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck and Johann Christian Jüngken, among others at the universities in Berlin and Göttingen . During this time, Nikolai Pirogow , who later became one of the most famous doctors in Russian history, worked at the University of Berlin in preparation for his professorship, and Karawajew became his loyal student and friend.

After his stay in Germany he initially returned home, but after a short time in 1836 he went to the imperial university of Dorpat in what is now Estonian Tartu , where Nikolai Pirogow was meanwhile professor of surgery and pathological anatomy. Together with Pirogow, he experimented on more than 30 laboratory animals - dogs, calves and cats - for signs of purulent blood infections, which he made on the advice of Pirogow on the subject of his doctoral thesis. In his dissertation on traumatic phlebitis "De phlebitide traumatica" (in German: About traumatic phlebitis ) in 1838 at the University of Dorpat, Karawajew also presented clinical observations of three patients from the surgical clinic and was awarded the degree of doctor of medicine. After his doctorate, he made a short internship at the Naval Hospital in Kronstadt between 1839 and 1840 , where he performed 113 operations.

Tomb of Volodymyr Karawajew in the Baikowe Cemetery

In 1840 Karawajew was appointed professor of surgery at the medical faculty of St. Vladimir University in Kiev and visited Vienna, London and Paris for scientific research in 1841/1842. From 1844 on he was dean of the faculty. In the same year he founded and directed the surgical faculty clinic of this university for almost 50 years until his death. The faculty clinic, which was the first clinic for eye diseases in the Russian Empire, treated 74,000 patients between 1844 and 1882. Of these, 5434 were hospitalized and up to 8000 were operated on. Karavaev performed a large number of operations and quickly became one of the most active surgeons and anesthesiologist in the Russian Empire. At the university clinic alone, he performed 3,030 operations on inpatients and 7,600 on outpatients. He performed his first operation under ether anesthesia in February 1847. He was a polyvalent surgeon who, however, was mainly used for ophthalmic surgery.

Karavaev died at the age of 80 in Kiev and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .

Honors

Karavaev received numerous honors and awards. Including:

Web links

Commons : Volodymyr Karawajew  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e biography Volodymyr Karawajew in the Medical Library ; accessed on May 20, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on Vladimir Afanassjewitsch Karawajew in the Great Biographical Encyclopedia (2009); accessed on May 20, 2018 (Russian)
  3. ↑ a b Biography of Volodymyr Karawajew in the encyclopedia of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev ; accessed on May 20, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Entry on Wolodymyr Karawajew in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on May 20, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Entry on Wladimir Afanassjewitsch Karawajew in Brockhaus-Efron ; accessed on May 20, 2018 (Russian)
  6. ↑ a b c Entry on Volodymyr Karawajew in the Kiev Encyclopedia ; accessed on May 20, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Karawajew, Vladimir Afanassjewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Караваев, Владимир Афанасьевич (Russian); Karawajew, Volodymyr Opanassowytsch (transcribed in Ukrainian); Володимир Опанасович, Караваєв (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Ukrainian surgeon and ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyatka , Vyatka Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1892
Place of death Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire