Pavel Jacobi

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Pavel Jacobi in old age

Pavel Ivanovich Jacobi (Russian: Павел Иванович Якоби or Якобий; 15 July [O.S. 3 July] 1841,[1] Kazan - 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1913) was a Russian revolutionary socialist, member of the Land and Liberty society, ethnographer and physician.[2] He was a pioneer of the Pinel reforms of psychiatry in Russia, credited to be first who formulated all the principles for the new paradigm in the organizational psychiatry.[3]

Pavel Jacobi was a born to a noble family of retired colonel Ivan Karlovich Jacobi.[1] He was a younger brother of painter Valery Jacobi. Pavel Jacobi graduated from

University of Heidelberg.[1][2]

In 1863-1864 he participated in the

Galicia.[1][2] After suppressing of the uprising Jacobi emigrated to Switzerland.[1]

In 1864 Jacobi enters and in 1868 graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Zurich.[1] He became a leader of the "Young Emigration" circle of the Land and Liberty society and published polemical political articles criticizing socialist Alexander Herzen for being to moderate. He also tried to introduce theories of Karl Marx into the field of forensic medicine.[2] In Switzerland he married Varvara Alexandrovna Zaytseva,[1] sister of Russian publicist Varfolomey Zaytsev (1842–1882).[4]

In 1871 during the Franco-Prussian War Jacobi served as a military doctor in the Army of the Vosges led by Giuseppe Garibaldi.[2] His wife, Zaytseva-Jacobi also served in the Army of the Vosges as a medical nurse and later left popular memoirs Among Garibaldians. Memoirs of a Russian Woman.[1]

In 1880 Jacobi writes an important article Morality in Psychiatric Statistics (Нравственность в психиатрической статистике). The statistical calculations for the article were performed by Russian mathematician

Sofia Kovalevskaya. The work was later become the basis of Cesare Lombroso's monograph L'uomo di genio in rapporto alla psichiatria (Man of Genius)[1]

In 1890 Jacobi returned to Russia, where he worked as a psychiatrist in

Kharkov, Kursk and Mogilev.[4] Jacobi is credited as the first who formulated all the principles for the new paradigm in the organizational psychiatry towards Pinel ideas of non-confinement. It was done during a historical debate of 1891 about the future of Russian psychiatry and required expertise in both European new theories and psychiatric practice in contemporary Russia.[3]

One of the main ethnographic results of Jacobi at the time was discovering people of clearly

Pavel Jacobi died in

Nicholas II and the Revolution (Tallinn, 1937).[4]

Major works

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