Friedrich Huldreich Erismann, or Fyodor Fyodorovich Erismann (14 November 1842 – 13 November 1915) was a Swiss

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and

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Biography

Erismann was born in Gontenschwil, Switzerland. In 1867, Erismann earned his medical doctorate at the University of Zurich, subsequently furthering his studies in ophthalmology in Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin. In 1867 he married

Nadezhda Suslova Nadezhda Prokofyevna Suslova (russian: Надежда Прокофьевна Суслова; 1 September 1843 – 20 April 1918) was Russia's first woman medical doctor and the sister of Polina Suslova. She worked as a gynecologist in Nizhny No ...

, and two years later relocated to Saint Petersburg as an

. His interests soon turned to issues such as public health and conditions of the poor. In the early 1870s he studied hygiene and physiology in Munich, where his instructors were Max von Pettenkofer (1818–1901) and

Carl von Voit Carl von Voit (31 October 1831 – 31 January 1908) was a German physiologist and dietitian. Biography Voit was born in Amberg, the son of August von Voit and Mathilde Burgett. From 1848 to 1854 he studied at the universities of Munich and Wür ...

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(biography) Following participation in Russo-Turkish War, he moved to Moscow, where from 1881 he served as a lecturer at the University of Moscow. In 1884 he was appointed professor of hygiene and director at the institute of hygiene. At the University of Moscow, one of his students was playwright

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. In 1870 he invented the new construction of

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which was used in Russian schools till the beginning of 1960s. Erismann was a pioneer of scientific hygiene in Russia, and sought to improve water quality and

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in St. Petersburg and Moscow. In 1896 Erismann was dismissed from his position at Moscow for political reasons, as he expressed support of student revolutionaries and denounced the living conditions of the Russian people. Afterwards, he returned to Switzerland and became involved with political and health issues in Zürich. He published in German and Russian. Among his numerous writings was ''Gesundheitslehre für Gebildete aller Stände'' (Health education for the educated of all classes), a book that was published in several editions.

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(list of publications). {{DEFAULTSORT:Erismann, Friedrich 1842 births 1915 deaths Hygienists Swiss ophthalmologists University of Zurich alumni People from Kulm District

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