Aleksey Vasilyevich Favorsky

FAVORSKY, Aleksey Vasilyevich (1873–1930), professor of nervous diseases at Kazan University.

After graduating from the medical faculty in 1896, he worked in the Kazan neurological clinic under L. O. Darkshevich.

In 1901, he defended his dissertation ("Materials on the question of pathological-anatomical changes of the spinal cord during its compression," Kazan, 1901) for the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

From 1904 to 1906, he was on a foreign assignment, where he worked under Vogt (work on nerve endings in the bulbus olfactorius) and under Metchnikoff (work on the action of botulinum toxin on lower vertebrates).

During this time, Favorsky established himself as a histopathologist of the nervous system.

In 1907, he received his privat-docent status.

In 1910, he again received a foreign assignment and worked under Alzheimer (work on the phenomena of degeneration in tabes dorsalis).

In 1918, he was elected to the chair of nervous diseases at Kazan University, which he headed until his death.

He was the chairman of the Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists at Kazan University and dean of the medical faculty (1917).

He simultaneously headed the chair of nervous diseases at the Kazan Institute for the Advanced Training of Physicians.

Favorsky has about 30 works devoted to questions of the clinic and histopathology of the nervous system, as well as some social issues.