Vladimir Ilyich Ioffe

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Vladimir Ioffe (1968)

Wladimir Iljitsch Ioffe ( Russian Владимир Ильич Иоффе , scientific transliteration Vladimir Il'ič Ioffe ; * February 2 jul. / February 14,  1898 greg. In Mglin , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † April 1, 1979 in Leningrad (now Sankt Petersburg ), USSR ) was a Soviet microbiologist and immunologist . He has done significant work in the fields of immunity , microbiology , epidemiology of viral infections, clinical and epidemiological immunology, and immunopathological conditions. During World War II he worked as an epidemiologist and specialist in infectious diseases in the encircled Leningrad . He received the Order of the Red Star (1942), twice the Order of the Great Patriotic War (1943, 1945), the medal “For the Defense of Leningrad” (1945) and the medal “Victory over Germany” .

Life

The parents Ilja Isajewitsch Ioffe (1870–1935, born in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils ), Vitebsk Governorate ) and Sara Isaakowna Ioffe, née. Isakowitsch (? –1929) came from Jewish families. Ilja Ioffe worked as an accountant. In 1899 the family from Mglin moved to Perm . There Ioffe spent his early childhood and school days like his brothers Naum and Lew. In 1915 Ioffe, like his older brothers, moved to Kazan to study at the medical faculty of the university there. After completing his studies, he worked as a doctor at the government hospital in Perm. A short time later Ioffe headed a bacteriological laboratory and then a bacteriological institute.

In 1923 Vladimir Ilyich Ioffe moved to Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) and worked at the Department of Comparative Pathology of Communicable Disease of the State Institute of Experimental Medicine. A year later he was confirmed in the position of laboratory doctor in the department of comparative pathology. In 1933 he received his doctorate in healing sciences . In 1940 he headed the department for infantile droplet infection at the State Institute of Experimental Medicine. At the same time, Ioffe was working as the head of the bacteriological laboratory at the Erismann Hospital and Vasileostrovskaya Children's Infection Hospital . From 1937 to 1941 he was a scientific advisor at the Leningradem Institute of Bacteriology and Epidemiology Louis Pasteur .

In October 1941 Ioffe was drafted into the Baltic Red Banner Fleet with the rank of military doctor, 1st class . During the Second World War he worked as an epidemiologist. Thanks to him, the fleet had no serious infectious disease outbreaks. After the war he continued to work in the epidemiological field. In 1969 he was elected an academician of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences.

In April 1979 Ioffe was buried in the Leningrad cemetery in memory of those who were murdered on January 9th ( St. Petersburg's Bloody Sunday ). In September 2016, the remains were reburied in Haifa .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Иоффе Владимир Ильич ( ru ) Земля Мглинская - родной край. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ Академик Владимир Ильич Иоффе ( ru ) Путешествие по Брянску. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  3. ↑ Шуламит Шалит: [ http://berkovich-zametki.com/Nomer37/Shalit1.htm Академик В.Иоффе: "Родной язык - еврейский" (1898-1979)] ( ru ) Земоет. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  4. ↑ Воспоминания о раввине Каценеленбогене ( ru ) Еврейские новости Петербурга. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ Иоффе Владимир Ильич ( ru ) Большая медицинская энциклопедия. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Ioffe, Vladimir Ilyich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ioffe Vladimir Il'ič; Иоффе, Владимир Ильич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet microbiologist and immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Mglin , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1979
Place of death Leningrad , USSR