Аннотация:THE LIFE PATH OF JOHANN HEINRICH KLEIN (1837 – 1922) THE DEAN OF THE IMPERIAL MOSCOW UNIVERSITY
MEDICAL FACULTY
Vassili A. Loginov, Prof., MD Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Basic Medicine
Johann Heinrich (Ivan Fedorovich) Klein was a prominent Russian pathologist of the 19th century, Professor of the Imperial Moscow University, head of Department of pathological anatomy and later Dean of the medical faculty. Having graduated from the Moscow University and defended his doctoral dissertation, I. F. Klein double-trained Rudolf Virchow and was a conductor of ideas of the great German scientist in Russian science. Klein innovations at the Moscow University affected not only the theoretical part (cellular pathology, bacteriology) and methodological approach (widespread microscopy, the new structure teaching of the course pathological anatomy). Thanks to the efforts of I. F. Klein significantly enriched the anatomical Museum of the Department. Outstanding personal qualities of Klein and his reputation among his students helped him find a way out of critical situations associated with student riots,1869-1870. For his services F. I. Klein was awarded with the state awards, received a knighthood. However, in the Professor’s personal life there were serious problems: mental illness of his first wife, the unexpected death of a young son, and then a progressive disease. In 1906 Klein resigns. Against a difficult period in Russian history, the rest of his life Professor Klein spent in poverty and oblivion, died in 1922 in the village Gridnevo, near Moscow, the location of the grave is currently unknown.
Keywords: Geschichte, Medizin, pathologische Anatomie, das neunzehnte Jahrhundert, Kaiserliche Moskauer Universität,Medizinische Fakultät.
Key words: history, medicine, pathological anatomy, nineteenth century, Russia, Imperial Moscow University, Faculty of Medicine.