Mikhail Ivanovich Stutzer was a Russian, Soviet and Ukrainian microbiologist and epidemiologist. He was famous of his scientific works, active participation in the fight against infectious epidemics and discovery of the new bacterial species of dysentery called Stutzer-Schmitz Shigella.
Background
Ethnicity:
The Stutzer family originates from Jacob Stutzer, a Prussian merchant from Erlich, Prussia (XVII-XVIII cent.)
Mikhail Ivanovich Stutzer was born on November 21, 1879 in Moscow, Russian Federation. He was the son of famous teacher Ivan Ivanovich Stutzer. Since childhood, he dreamed to devote his life to science.
Education
In the early 1900s, Mikhail Ivanovich entered the medical faculty of Moscow University, which he graduated in 1906.
Career
As a graduate of Moscow University, Mikhail Ivanovich was sent to Port Arthur, where he was a military doctor; he also worked as a military doctor in Poltava province. From 1909 to 1911 he trained at the Robert Koch Laboratory in Berlin. Then he returned to his native city and until 1914 he headed the Ferrein Chemical and Bacteriological Institute.
During the World War I Mikhail Ivanovich served on the Western Front, and then in captivity, where he worked in the laboratory of the quarantine camp for prisoners.
In 1919 moved to Poltava and worked at the Poltava Bacteriological Institute. During his work, Mikhail Ivanovich came up with the idea of creating a bacteriological institute, and he decided to open it in Voronezh, where moved in 1921 and until 1927 headed this institute, while being a professor of microbiology at Voronezh State University.
In 1927 Mikhail Ivanovich moved to Rostov-on-Don and headed the Microbiological Institute during three years; then he moved to Kiev, where he held the post of director of the Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology for several months.
In 1931, Mikhail Ivanovich returned to Moscow and worked at various research institutes. Mikhail Ivanovich was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison camps in 1931. He was sent to Suzdal, where worked in a bacteriological laboratory, which was also involved in the development of bacteriological weapons. According to the memoirs of A.A. Rusanova, he was released and soon passed away.