Sergei Simeonovich Abramov

Born 1875
Died

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Russian pathologist and bacteriologist, born 1875, Rostov-on Don; died after 1936, in France.

Biography of Sergei Simeonovich Abramov

Sergei Simeonovich Abramov graduated from the Medical School of Moscow State University in 1899, two years after he, while a medical student, described the myocarditis that now bears his name. In 1906 he became an associate professor of anatomic pathology at Moscow State University. From 1913 to 1920 he was professor of bacteriology at the Moscow Female Medical Institute. This institute was later renamed the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute.

In 1920, during the civil war, he emigrated to Berlin. Later, 1921 to 1924, he was Professor of General and Anatomic Pathology at the University of Sophia, Bulgaria. In 1925 he moved to Paris to become a teacher at the Russian Faculty at the University of Paris. He worked there until the late 1930s.

From its foundation on 1921, Abramov was Chairman of the Union of Russian Doctors in Bulgaria, and from 1936 Chairman of Russian Ex-Patriate Physicians' Society.

We thank Leonid Churilov, St. Petersburg, for information submitted.

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