Background
Son of Pinkhos (Faddey) Cyon and his wife Sarah. He had an elder brother Moses (born 1840).
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Elias von Cyon, also known as Elie de Cyon, born Ilya Fadeyevich Tsion; was a Russian-French physiologist born in Telšiai, Russian Empire.
Education
Cyon studied medicine at the medical-surgical academy in Warsaw, at the University of Kiev and in Berlin.
Career
He obtained a degree in medicine in Kiev in 1864. In 1866 he worked in Leipzig as an assistant to Carl Ludwig (1816–1895), with whom he collaborated on creation of the first isolated perfused frog heart preparation. From 1867 he taught classes on anatomy and physiology at the University of Saint St. Petersburg, where he was assistant to the director of the physiology laboratory, Filipp Ovsyannikov.
At Saint St. Petersburg one of his students was Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936).
His name is associated with "Cyon"s nerve" (aortic nerve), which is a branch of the vagus nerve that terminates in the aortic arch and base of the heart. lieutenant is composed entirely of afferent fibers.
Achievements
Politics
In 1870 he became an associate professor, and following student protests concerning his political views, he relocated to Paris in 1877.
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Russian Empire -
Religion
Catholic