On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Yakov Alekseevich Chistovich

In 2020, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ya.A.Chistovich (1820-1885), the founder of a great Russian medical dynasty, is celebrated. Chistovich was a famous domestic forensic physician, hygienist, medical historian. Almost all his professional activities were related to the Military Medical Academy. He owned the initiative to create the first independent hygiene department in Russia. He founded the first forensic department in Russia in a hospital. A significant contribution to the history of domestic medicine is the historical and medical works of Ya.A.Chistovich. Contemporaries remembered him as an extremely hardworking, modest, and versatile scientist. His three sons, grandchildren, and subsequent generations of descendants also connected their lives with medicine; some of them made a significant contribution to the development of domestic medical science.

Yakov Alekseevich Chistovich, scientist, founder of a medical dynasty, history of military medicine