Viktor Pashutin | |
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Born | Viktor Vasilyevich Pashutin 28 January 1845 Novocherkassk, Russian Empire |
Died | 2 February 1901 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
(aged 56)
Nationality | Russian |
Fields | pathophysiology |
Alma mater | Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy |
Known for | one of the founders of the pathophysiologic school in Russia and of pathophysiology as an independent scientific discipline. |
Notable awards |
Order of Saint Stanislaus 2nd Class Order of St. Anna 1st Class Order of Saint Vladimir 3rd Class Order of Prince Danilo I 1st Class |
Viktor Vasilyevich Pashutin (Russian: Ви́ктор Васи́льевич Пашу́тин) was a Russian patophysiologist, one of the founders of the pathophysiologic school in Russia and of pathophysiology as an independent scientific discipline. In 1890 — 1901 he headed the Imperial Military Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg, was its Full Member (1890).
Pashutin was born on 28 January 1845 in Novocherkassk, Don Host Oblast. Till 1862 he studied at the Voronezh Theological Seminary. In the same year he was admitted to the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy, where he became one of Ivan Sechenov's disciples. Graduated in 1868, he was left at the Academy to be prepared for the professor's rank. In 1870 Viktor Pashutin was awarded with the degree of Doctor of Medicine for the thesis titled "Some experiments on the enzymes that turn starch into glucose and cane sugar". In 1871 he became assistant professor of physiology.
The years from 1871 to 1874 Viktor Pashutin spent in practical trainings in different German universities. In Leipzig he practiced physiology under the guidance of Professor Carl Ludwig and medicinal chemistry with Professor Karl Hugo Huppert. He also attended the lectures of Friedrich von Recklinghausen on general pathology and of Felix Hoppe-Seyler on medicinal chemistry in Strasbourg.