Emmanuel Steinschneider
Baltic German scientist (1886–1970)
Emmanuel Efimovich Steinschneider (Russian: Эммануил Ефимович Штайншнайдер; 21 December 1886 – 2 December 1970), was a Russian and Soviet physician and medical researcher, best known for his studies on influenza, malaria, typhoid, typhus, dysentery and other infections that were rampant during the first half of the 20th century.
Biography
Emmanuel Steinschneider was born to a Jewish family in Narva, Russian Empire, his father was deeply respected in Jewish community for adopting and bringing up orphaned Jewish children. In 1905, he graduated with excellence from the high school. He then went to Germany, where he went up to the Halle University Faculty of Medicine. In 1912 after graduation he returned to Russia where he worked as a zemskiy doctor in the Dnipro District (Tauride) until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he was enlisted for active military service. During the war he served as a junior doctor of 142nd (1914), then the 129th Infantry Regiment (1915), and then as a junior ordinator of the 324th contagious field hospital (1916-1918).
After the Russian Revolution and during the Russian Civil War, in 1918-1921 served as the chief assistant of the epidotdel Military Medical Administration of the Moscow District, worked as a chief on the formation of the Red Guard sanitary units (1918). During these years, he was an assistant for infectious diseases clinic of the second Moscow State University.
1921-1923 - head of the Department of the Ural Medical Institute (Yekaterinburg).
1924-1940 - head of the Department for Infectious Diseases of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute (1924-1930 associate professor, 1930-1940 professor).
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