Emmanuel Efimovich Steinschneider | |
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| Born | 21 December 1886 |
| Died | 2 December 1970 |
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| Known for | Malaria vaccine and typhus vaccine |
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Emmanuel Efimovich Steinschneider (Russian: Эммануил Ефимович Штайншнайдер; 21 December 1886 – 2 December 1970), was a Russian Empire and USSR physician and medical researcher, best known for his studies on influenza, malaria, typhoid, typhus, dysentery and other infections that were rampant during the first half of the 20th century.
Emmanuel Steinschneider was born to a Jewish family in Narva, Russian Empire, his father was deeply respected in Jewish community for adopting and bringing up orphaned Jewish children. In 1905, he graduated with excellence from the high school. He then went to Germany, where he went up to the Halle University Faculty of Medicine. In 1912 after graduation he returned to Russia where he worked as a zemskiy doctor in the Dnipro District (Tauride) until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he was enlisted for active military service. During the war he served as a junior doctor of 142nd (1914), then the 129th Infantry Regiment (1915), and then as a junior ordinator of the 324th contagious field hospital (1916-1918).
After the Russian Revolution and during the Russian Civil War, in 1918-1921 served as the chief assistant of the epidotdel Military Medical Administration of the Moscow District, worked as a chief on the formation of the Red Guard sanitary units (1918). During these years, he was an assistant for infectious diseases clinic of the second Moscow State University.
Emmanuel E. Steinschneider was a member of the Board of I.I.Metchnikov clinical section of the Moscow branch of the Russian Society of microbiologists, epidemiologists and infectionists.
Steinschneider died 2 December 1970 in Moscow. He was buried at Vostryakovskoe Cemetery.[1]
