Geimanovich

Geimanovich, Alexander Iosifovich (born in 1882), neuropathologist, director of the All-Ukrainian Psychoneurological Institute. Graduated from the medical faculty in Moscow in 1908; from 1908 to 1911 he worked in Moscow and abroad, and from 1911 in Kharkov. In 1921 he founded the Psychoneurological Institute in Kharkov and became its director. In 1924 he was elected a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences; from 1928 he was a member of the board of the Ukrainian Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and a member of the presidium of the Ukrainian Society of Scientists and Technicians for the promotion of socialist culture. In 1927 he received the title of Honored Professor. At various times he served as secretary and editor of 12 scientific journals, at present editor of 6 journals; member of the board of the Kharkov Medical Society. To his pen belong 115 scientific works on various questions of neuropathology: semiotics, higher reflexes, neurosyphilis—"Lues cerebro-spinalis" (Collection dedicated to V. Rot, Moscow, 1911), neuroinfectious diseases, epidemic encephalitis (24 works), neurosurgery, pathological anatomy of nervous and mental diseases, psychiatry, social and preventive psychoneurology, etc. Of the works of G., separate editions were published: "Materials to the Neurology of War" (Kharkov, 1916); "Materials to the General Neuropathology of Acute Infections" (Kharkov, no year); "Experimental Epidemic Encephalitis of Rabbits" (Kharkov, 1926).