Danilevsky

DANILEVSKY, Aleksandr Yakovlevich (1839–1923), a well-known biochemist. He graduated from Kharkiv University in 1860. In 1863, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine and was invited to be a professor of medical chemistry at Kazan University, where he remained until 1871. From 1871 to 1885, he worked abroad for the most part. From 1886 to 1892, he served as a professor of physiological chemistry at Kharkiv University, from 1892 to 1906 as a professor, and from 1906 to 1910 as the head of the Military Medical Academy. The works of Danilevsky concern mainly the chemistry of digestion, the chemistry of proteins, and the physiology of the nervous system. His research "On the specifically acting bodies of natural and artificial pancreatic juices," which he subsequently developed for his dissertation (Kharkiv, 1863), dates back to his student years. Danilevsky was the first to discover the formation of plasteins during the action of rennet ferment on the products of peptic digestion of proteins ("The fundamental substance of protoplasm and its modifications by life," St. Petersburg, 1894). His other works concern the self-digestion of the stomach, the content of antiferments in the intestinal wall, the character of muscle proteins, and the chemical composition of the haptogenic membrane of milk globules.

DANILEVSKY, Vasily Yakovlevich (born 1852), a well-known physiologist. Upon graduating from the medical faculty at Kharkiv University in 1874, Danilevsky received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1875 after defending his dissertation "Studies on the physiology of the brain" (Moscow, 1876), and in 1878–79 he was sent abroad, where he worked in the laboratories of Fick, Ludwig, and others. Occupying chairs of physiology from 1880 to 1906—first at the Veterinary Institute, then at Kharkiv University—Danilevsky was elected the first director of the Women's Medical Institute opened in Kharkiv in 1910, in the organization of which he took an active part. Danilevsky displayed broad public activity before the war in the Kharkiv Literacy Committee; the "People's Encyclopedia" was published with his close participation. From 1917, Danilevsky resumed lecturing on the course at the medical faculty in Kharkiv, where he served as a professor until 1926. Danilevsky is a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Numerous scientific studies by Danilevsky, mainly in the field of the physiology of the brain, sense organs, and the muscular system, have been published in Russian and foreign journals. Danilevsky's widely circulated work "Human Physiology" (Vol. I–II, Moscow, 1913–15) enjoys well-deserved fame. In addition, the following works by Danilevsky were published as separate editions: "On the origin of muscular force" (Kharkiv, 1876); "Studies on the physiological effect of electricity at a distance" (Kharkiv, 1900); "The physician, his vocation and education" (Kharkiv, 1921); "Hypnotism" (Kharkiv, 1924).