N.I. PIROGOV - SURGEON, SCIENTIST, AND TEACHER: A LOOK FROM THE 21ST CENTURY (ON THE 210TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT RUSSIAN DOCTOR). PART. 2

Abstract

In the second part of the scientific review of the life, medical and scientific activities of N.I. Pirogov there are considered his achievements in his five-years research at the University of Dorpat. The result of training at the Dorpat «professor’s institute» was the defense of a doctoral dissertation. In March 1836, the doctor of medicine, N.I. Pirogov was approved as a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Dorpat, whose entire German-speaking scientific environment was a favorable factor in the full-fledged development of his scientific genius. In the person of N.I. Pirogov’s original Russian biomedical science has reached a «level of truly universal perspectives», has been recognized by the world scientific community. In 1841, N.I. Pirogov became the head of the Department of Surgery at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy (IMSA) in St. Petersburg, where he worked for 14 years, the most fruitful in his creative biography as a scientist and doctor. He created the Department of Hospital Surgery, the Anatomical Institute, a new scientific discipline - topographic anatomy. Philosophical reflection is organically inherent in N.I. Pirogov as a doctor, scientist, teacher, citizen.