Pavel Jacobi
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
In 1863-1864 he participated in the
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
In 1890 Jacobi returned to Russia, where he worked as a psychiatrist in
One of the main ethnographic results of Jacobi at the time was discovering people of clearly
Pavel Jacobi died in
Major works
- Проект организации земского попечения о душевнобольных Московской губернии, ч. 1–2, М., 1891–92; (Project of organization zemstvo care of mental patients of Moscow Gubernia, in two volumes, 1891–1892)
- Основы административной психиатрии, Орел, 1900; (Basics of Administrative Psychiatry), 1900 )
- Глухонемые, СПБ, 1907; (Deaf and Dumb, 1907)
- Вятичи Орловской губернии, СПБ, 1907 {Vyatichsof Orel Gubernia, 1907)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Pavel Ivanovich Jacobiy[permanent dead link] by E.N. Ashkhimina
- ^ a b c d e f Pavel Jacobi article in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian)
- ^ a b 175 Years on our Pinel Reform and the Life of the Reform in Russia (in Russian)
- ^ a b c d Lesser known pages of life of Pavel Ivanovich Jacobiy by I.I. Schigolev (in Russian)
- ^ Vyatichs of Orel Gubernia by S.V. Kochevykh (in Russian)