In the history of medicine, Nikolai Pirogov is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Nikolai Pirogov as Russian medical scientist (1810-1881).
Nikolai Pirogov was born at Moscow in 1810. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Medical faculty of Moscow University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Imperial University of Dorpat and Imperial Academy of Medical Surgery.
The recorded fields of work are medicine.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class, Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class, Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class (1873) and Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class.
That the work was done from Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Nikolai Pirogov died in 1881, aged 71. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class
- Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class
- Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class — 1873
- Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class
- Order of Saint Anna, 1st class — 1860
- Held posts at Imperial University of Dorpat and Imperial Academy of Medical Surgery
- Fields: medicine
