Background
BLUMENAU, Leonid was born in 1862.
BLUMENAU, Leonid was born in 1862.
1886 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy.
After graduation received three years of specialist training at Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy and worked at 1. P. Merzheycvskiy’s Clinic. From 1889 worked at Waldeier’s Anatomical Institute in Beilin, at Flexig’s Laboratories in Leipzig, under Golgi in Pavia and under Charcot in Paris.
After return to Russia became associate professor, Chair of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy, read courses on anatomy and physiology of the brain and conducted seminars on diagnosis of nervous diseases. From 1903 professor, Clinic for Nervous Diseases, Yeleninskiy (now State) Clinical Institute. 1904-1912 lectured on teachers’ training courses and at Pedagogical Academy, League of Education.
1909-1914 chairman, Social for Education and Training of Defective Children. 1913-1916 member, Municipal Hospital Committee, Saint St. Petersburg City Duma. 1918-1920 member. Learned Medical Council, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Health.
From 1920 until death member, Ncuropsychiatric Council, Leningrad Province Health Department. From November 1924 founder-member and chairman, Social of Leningrad Neuropathologists. 1887-1926 member, 1926-1931 Honorary member, Social of Psychiatrists.
One of first clinical neuropathologists to use Pavlov's theory to explain pathogenesis of functional disorders of nervous system, particularly hysteria. Wrote over 60 papers on anatomy and physiology of brain, neuropathology, balneotherapy of nervous diseases and balneology in general.
Religion is bad because it obstructs scientific research.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.