Yehuda L. Katzenelson
Russian physician and writer
Yehuda Leib Katsnelson, (Russian: Лев (Иегуда Лейб Вениамин) Израилевич Каценельсон; 29 November 1846, (Hebrew Calendar 10 Kislev 5690), Chernigov – 1917, Petrograd), also known by his pen name 'Buki Ben Yogli', was a military doctor, writer and publicist of Hebrew Literature.
Early life
Katznelson was born in November 1846 in Chernigov in the South-West Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). He studied at the Zhytomyr Rabbinical School and Teachers' Seminary, and began his medical study at the University of Saint Petersburg. During his studies he worked as a teacher of Hebrew for beginners at the Jewish school run by Eliezer Berman.
In 1865, Katzenelson attended the government-sponsored rabbinical seminary in Zhitomir.
Career
After graduating, he served as a military physician in the Ottoman–Russian War (1877–78). At the end of the war, Katznelson settled in Saint Petersburg.
As a young man, he worked for Hebrew-language newspapers (e.g.Today, a Russian newspaper) as an editor and contributed to articles on scientific matters.
He began to write about medical science, drawing on the Talmud as relevant to modern medicine. These articles were assembled later in his book The Wisdom of the Talmud and Medicine.
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