Secenov, Ivan Michajlovic

Prof. Setschenov

Bio: * 1829, Sechenovo, Russia; † 1905, Moscow, Russia
Career: 1843-1848 Military Engineering School in St. Petersburg; 1848-1850 military engineer at Kiev; 1850-1856 studies of medicine at Moscow University; between 1856 and 1862, studies and work in the laboratories of Johannes Müller, Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Helmholtz (Berlin), Hoppe-Seyler (Leipzig), Ludwig (Vienna) and Bernard (Paris); 1860-1870 professor at the St. Petersburg Medico-Surgical Academy; foundation of the first Russian school of physiology; after resigning (to protest the rejection of Elie Metschnikoff), chemical research in Mendeleev's laboratory in St. Petersburg; 1871-1876 chair at the Novorossysk University at Odessa; 1876-1888 professor at St. Petersburg and 1891-1901 at Moscow.
Degrees: M.D., Military-Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, 1860
VL Library: Refleksy golovnogo mozga, in: Med. vestnik 47(1863): 461-484, 48(1863): 493-512 (engl. Übers. v. A. A. Subkov in: I. M. Sechenov, Selected Works, Moscow-Leningrad 1935: 264-322); Über die elektrische und chemische Reizung der sensiblen Rückenmarksnerven des Frosches, Graz 1868; Sobranie socinenij, 2 t., Moskva 1907-1908; Izbrannye trudy, Moskva 1935. Elements of Thought (1878); Who Must Investigate the Problem of Psychology and How (1873)