Vladimir Petrovich Serbsky

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Vladimir Petrovich Serbsky

Vladimir Serbsky ( Russian Владимир Петрович Сербский * February 14 jul. / 26. February  1858 greg. In Bogorodsk , † April 5 jul. / 18 April  1917 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian psychiatrist whose name the renowned national research center for forensic psychiatry , the Serbsky Institute in Moscow.

Life

He was born in Bogorodsk, which was renamed Noginsk in 1930, near Moscow. In 1880, after completing his science degree at Moscow University , he began studying medicine , which he successfully completed in 1883. In 1902 he became a professor at Moscow University. He was committed to preserving the university with extensive autonomy, which in 1911 led to an open conflict with the education minister of the Tsar LA Kasso, whereupon he gave up his chair at Moscow University in protest .

After a severe kidney disease , he died in Moscow in 1917. He was the author of several specialist books. He wrote u. a. Forensic psychopathology (Russian Судебная психопатология ), which was published in Moscow in 1900 and which is one of his major works.

The Serbsky Institute located in Moscow (Russian Государственный научный центр социальной и судебной психиатрии им. В. П. Сербского , the national research center was renamed to him in honor of the 19th psychiatric research 21 ).

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