Richter

Richter Wilhelm Mikhailovich (1767-1822), outstanding Russian obstetrician of the early 19th century. R. was born in Moscow, received his primary education at home from his enlightened father, his secondary education at the famous Reval Gymnasium, and his higher education partly at Moscow University, mainly abroad. Returning from abroad, Richter immediately received the chair of obstetrics at Moscow University and held it for 28 years (1790-1818). In 1801-1807, he concurrently served as director of the Maternity Institute he founded at the Moscow Educational Home, where he highly trained midwives, for whom he composed "A Guide to the Art of Midwifery" (Moscow, 1801; 2nd ed.-1822, 3rd-1846). R. is one of the founders of scientific obstetrics in Russia, essentially the first professor of obstetrics at Moscow University, founder of the obstetrics clinic of this university, one of the founders and long-term chairman of the first Russian association of physicians - the Physical-Medical Society at Moscow University, author of valuable works on obstetrics, one of the founders of the first scientific medical journal, and finally author of the classic, still not outdated "Geschichte der Medizin in Russland" (V. I-III, Moscow, 1813-1817; Russian translation "History of Medicine in Russia", Moscow, 1814-1820).