Scientists and Their Schools: Grigoriy Vitalyevich Khlopin (1863–1929), Professor at Yuriev (Tartu) and Odessa Universities

Abstract

An extensive body of literature is devoted to the life and work of one of the leading hygienists Grigoriy Vitalyevich Khlopin, who was head of the Department of Hygiene at the University of Yuriev (present-day Tartu) in 1896–1903 (Loit, Loit & Kalnin, 1968; Belitskaya, 1982). Major encyclopedias published in Russia include biographical entries about him (Shishkin, 1978; Koshelev, 1985). In addition, Khlopin’s background is given in both general biographical dictionaries and other biographical books of the universities where he worked (Levitskii, 1903; Zolotarev, Ilyin & Luki, 1992; Volkov & Kulikov, 2003). Notable among these are the monographs by A. A. Rachkov (1965) and A. P. Shcherbo (2006). However, the former was published nearly half a century ago and was, in some respects, outdated, and the latter concentrated on the analysis of the "nal, the St. Petersburg period in Khlopin’s academic activities. This article aims to provide a more detailed study on the establishing and the initial phase of Khlopin’s scienti"c and hygienic school during the Yuriev period of his activity. Khlopin’s Yuriev period was followed by his stay in Odessa, where he was joined also by some of his Yuriev students (Alexander Rammul, Konstantin Dobrovolsky, and Ivan Brickman). The study includes several archival materials from the Moscow and Novorossiysk (Odessa) universities, many of which were "rst introduced by the authors of this article for scienti"c discovery.