Blumenau

Blumenau, Leonid Vasilievich (born in 1862), a well-known contemporary neuropathologist, professor at the State Institute for Advanced Medical Studies (Leningrad). After completing the course at the Military Medical Academy in 1886, he was retained there by competition for 3 years for advanced studies and worked in the clinic of Professor Mergedevsky. In 1889, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine under the title: 'On the doctrine of pressure on the brain' and in the same year was sent abroad, where he worked at Waldayer's Anatomical Institute in Berlin, in Flexig's laboratories in Leipzig, Golgi's in Pavia, and in the neurological clinic of Charcot in Paris. Upon returning from his foreign assignment, he received the title of privat-docent at the academy in the department of nervous and mental diseases, taught a course in anatomy and physiology of the brain and conducted exercises with students on the diagnosis of nervous diseases. In 1903, he was elected professor of the neurological clinic at the State (formerly Elensky) Institute. From 1904 to 1912, he taught, in addition to the institute, at Pedological courses and later in the Pedagogical Academy of the Education League formed from them. From 1909 to 1914, he was chairman of the Society for the Education and Upbringing of Abnormal Children. From 1913 to 1916, he was, by election of the St. Petersburg City Duma, a member of the city hospital commission. From 1918 to 1920, he was a member of the Scientific Medical Council under the People's Commissariat of Health. From 1920, a member of the Neuropsychiatric Council under the Leningrad Provincial Department of Health. Since 1887, he has been a member of the Society of Psychiatrists (in 1926 he was elected its honorary member). Founder and chairman of the Society of Leningrad Neuropathologists, founded in November 1924. He has more than 60 printed scientific works. A significant part of them relates to the field of anatomy and physiology of the brain, as does his main work - 'The Human Brain', which came out in 1925 in the second edition. A number of works are also devoted to various questions of nervous pathology. Two works by Blumenau on balneotherapy of nervous diseases (1899 and 1904) belong to the first systematic research in this regard at our resorts.