Vladimir Bechterev, photo by Karl Boella
Vladimir Michajlovitsj Bechterev (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Бехтерев) (Sorali, January 20, 1857 - Moscow, December 24, 1927) was a Russian neurologist and psychiatrist. He was a contemporary of Pavlov, with whom he had disagreements.
Bechterev (formerly transcribed as Bechterew) was born in the Vjatka government in Russia. In 1878 he studied at the Military Medical Academy in St Petersburg and became assistant of the psychiatrist Merzjevski. In 1881, Bechterev studied and then became a doctor at the Medical and Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg.
In 1884 he lived in Leipzig, Germany and Paris, France and worked with Paul Flechsig, Jean-Martin Charcot and Wilhelm Wundt. In 1885 he became professor of psychiatry at the University of Kazan. He succeeded Merzjejevski in 1893 at the Military Medical Academy.
He founded the Psycho-Psychological Institute in St. Petersburg where he worked from 1913 to 1918. From 1918 to 1927 he worked at the Brain Research Institute in St. Petersburg.
Bechterew's disease was named after him, as well as the reflection of Mendel-Bechterew. However, his most contributions are in the field of neurology.
Vladimir Bechterev died in Moscow in 1927. It is thought that Bechterev was killed by Joseph Stalin. As the most famous Russian psychiatrist of his time, he was offered to Stalin, who had many depressive complaints in the course of the power struggle after Lenin's death. Bechterev, known for the fact that he did not get a mouthpiece, told Stalin the diagnosis of paranoid personality. Some time later he died quite unexpectedly; In the period before that he had been chairman of a medical conference and made a healthy impression. Edvard Radzinski wrote about it in 1996: "When the famous physician Vladimir Michaïlovitsj Bechterev was asked in 1927 to investigate Stalin because the Great Boss suffered from his arm, he established advanced pursuit of madness and advised him immediate retirement. Shortly thereafter, Moscow witnessed the funeral of the eminent scientist. "
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