Pyotr Herzen

HERZEN, Pyotr Alexandrovich, professor of surgery at the 1st Moscow State University; born in 1871; son of the professor of physiology A. A. Herzen and grandson of the writer and revolutionary A. I. Herzen. He received his medical education abroad, where he defended his first dissertation, and in 1898 received the degree of physician with honors at Moscow University. In the same year, he began his work at the former Old-Catherine Hospital in Moscow, where he remained for 22 years. Herzen participated in the Russo-Japanese War in the detachment of the city of Moscow. During the imperialist

and Civil Wars, Herzen was a consultant and headed major surgical departments and hospitals. In 1910, he became a privat-docent at the faculty surgical clinic. His professorial career began in 1917—first on parallel courses of the medical faculty of the 1st Moscow State University, subsequently transformed into the Higher Medical School; at the 2nd Moscow State University, then at the 1st Moscow State University in the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy, and,

finally, in 1921, Herzen became professor of general surgery at this university and head of the Propaedeutic Surgical Clinic and the Institute for the Treatment of Tumors of the 1st Moscow State University. Herzen was chairman of the Russian Surgical Society in Moscow in 1926-28, has been a member of the International Surgical Society since its foundation, and chairman of the Surgical Expert Commission of the State Scientific Council since 1923. He has about 50 published works; two experimental dissertations—«Les causes de mort apres la double vagotomie» (Lausanne, 1897) and «On Nephrolyzins» (Moscow, 1910); a monograph—«Surgical Treatment of Traumatic Aneurysms» (Moscow, 1911), and a number of works in various fields of surgery. He authored 4 operative methods described in the following works: «On the Technique of Cholecystenterostomia» («Russkiy khirurgicheskiy obozrenie», vol. I, bk. 1, 1903); «Über die Technik der Radicaloperation des Schenkelbruchs» (Zentralbl. f. Chir., 1903, no. 37); «A Few Words on the Radical Operation for Femoral Hernia» («Novyy khirurgicheskiy arkhiv», vol. IV, bk. 3, 1924); «On an Extended and Mobile Cecum» («Meditsinskoe obozrenie», 1911, no. 20); «Eine Modification der Roux'schen Ösophagojejunostomie» (Zentralblatt f. Chirurgie, 1908, no. 8).