Volf Bronner

Soviet anti-syphilis propaganda, Moscow, 1926. Image shows Dr Volf Bronner to the right of the wagon, all outside the State Venereological Institute. Photographed by Dr Karl Wilmanns.[1]

Volf (or Wolf) Mojzejewicz Bronner (Russian: Вольф Моисеевич Броннер) (1876 - 7 March 1939) was a Russian physician, and venereologist.

Early life

Volf Bronner was born in Buriat-Mongolia in 1876. He attended high school at Chita and then began to study medicine at the University of Tomsk but was expelled because of his revolutionary political activities. He continued his medical studies at the University of Berlin from where he obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1900.[2]

Career

From 1900 to Autumn 1901 he was a doctor in Verkhneudinsk, and from 1906 to 1913 he was in Paris, where he worked with professor Guillion and subsequently at the Pasteur Institute. from 1915 he worked in Moscow and in 1922 he established the Venereology Institute in Moscow, of which he later became the director.[2]

He helped to organise the 1928 Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition.[3]

From 1931 to 1935 he was an extraordinary professor of skin diseases and sex diseases in Moscow.

Death

Bronner was arrested on 23 October 1937 on suspicion of espionage and activity in a terrorist organisation, convicted on 7 March 1939 and shot on the same day. He is buried at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow. He was rehabilitated on 28 April 1956.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Solomon, Susan Gross (1993). "The Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition to Buriat Mongolia, 1928: Scientific Research on National Minorities". Slavic Review. 52 (2): 204–232. doi:10.2307/2499920. JSTOR 2499920. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 "Soviet Eugenics for National Minorities: Eradication of Syphilis in Buriat-Mongolia as an Element of Social Modernisation of a Frontier Region 1923-1928" by Vsevolod Bashkuev in Björn M. Felder & Paul J. Weindling. (Eds.) (2013). Baltic Eugenics: Bio-Politics, Race and Nation in Interwar Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1918-1940. Amsterdam, N.Y.: Rodopi. pp. 261-286 (pp. 272–273). ISBN 978-94-012-0976-2.
  3. ↑ Bashkuev, p. 275.


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