Background
KLODNITSKJY, Nikolay was born on November 21, 1868 in village Krasnoye, Vilnius Province. Son of a priest.
Epidemiologist and microbiologist
KLODNITSKJY, Nikolay was born on November 21, 1868 in village Krasnoye, Vilnius Province. Son of a priest.
1886 graduate Mariampol’ High-School, Suvalki Province. 1894 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy with distinction.
While still a student helped to combat typhus epidemic in Saratov Province. 1894-1899 served in Russian Army as junior physician. 1899 worked at I. I. Pavlov’s laboratory.
1899-1904 head, bacteriological laboratory and infection barrack, Chinese-Eastern Railroad. 1902 combatted outbreak of plague among railroad construction workers in Manchuria. 1903-1905 and 1906 worked under I. I. Mechnikov in Paris and P. Ehrlich in Frankfurt-on-Main.
1905 helped to combat plague in Transbaykal. 1906-1914 head, Astrakhan’ Anti-Plague Laboratory. 1907 devised new method of hcmoculture.
1909 did research on experimental infection of guinea-pigs with typhus. 1911 isolated plague culture from camel. Established the presence of primary bacteriemia in bubonic plague.
1915-1917 commander, 43rd Sanitation and Hygiene Detachment, Galician Front, then consultant, Centr Military Hospital, Helsinki. 1917 supervised campaign against typhus in Petrograd. From 1920 professor, Chair of Infectious Diseases, Military Medical Academy.
1920-1924 founder-director, Infection Clinic, Tashkent Medical Institute. 1924-1925 head Biological Department, then Diagnosis Department, Baku Bacteriological Institute. From 1925 professor, Chair of Microbiology, Irkutsk University and director, Irkutsk Bacteriological Institute, where he founded an anti-plague unit in 1929.
From 1932 professor of epidemiology, Moscow Medical Institute. 1934 devised new method of cultivating agar jelly. Also did research on the microbiology and epidemiology of relapsing fever, paratyphus, malaria, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, et cetera
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