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Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov
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Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov was a Russian scientist and educator, the founder of the national school of physiology and of the natural-science direction in psychology. He was born into a noble family in the village of Tyoply Stan in the Simbirsk Governorate (now the village of Sechenovo in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast). At fourteen he entered the Main Military Engineering School and received his first officer rank. However, due to the unfriendly attitude of the school's commandant he did not complete it. In 1848 he began service in a sapper battalion in Kyiv. At the beginning of 1850 Sechenov resigned from the service and enrolled in the Medical Faculty of Moscow University, which he graduated from in 1856 with a doctoral degree.
After graduating from university he continued his studies abroad, working in laboratories in Germany and Austria. Upon his return to Russia in 1860, he began working at the Medical-Surgical Academy in Saint Petersburg, where he defended a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine. From 1889 Sechenov worked at Moscow University, first as a privat-docent, then as a professor and head of the Department of Physiology. In 1901 he stepped down from the department leadership but continued his research in his own laboratory and lectured in the Prechistensky Courses for Workers (1903–1904). Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov died in Moscow and was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery. In 1940 his remains were reinterred at Novodevichy Cemetery.
Date of birth
13 August 1829
Date of death
15 November 1905
Occupation
Scientist