Some Notes on the Biography of Maria Manasseina
2009; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 18; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09647040802200309
ISSN1744-5213
Autores Tópico(s)Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
ResumoAbstract A short note about the life and personality of Maria Manasseina (also known as Marie von Manassein, Marie de Manacéine), a Russian woman-doctor of the second half of the nineteenth century, a pioneer in biochemistry and experimental somnology. Keywords: history of biochemistrysleep research The author thanks Phillip Valko (Zurich, Switzerland) and the anonymous reviewers of JHN for their interest in the life and creativity of Maria M. Manasseina and the valuable materials given to us. Notes 1The state organ of political control and investigation in tsarist Russia, chief of jandarmeria, founded in 1826. 2Tarkhanov was to become an outstanding physiologist and academician, known in particular as a pioneer of the so-called galvanic skin reflex (the “Tarkhanoff reflex”). 3At this time Vyacheslav Manassein became intimate with Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dostoevskaya (1853–1932), a niece of Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, daughter of his brother Mikhail Mikhailovich who was known as a writer, poet, translator, and publisher. Manassein lived with Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dostoevskaya in a civil marriage for 28 years, until his death, formally remaining the husband of Maria Manasseina. The reasons that did not allow these four persons, rather worthy in every respect, to resolve their personal problems are unknown to us. One of possible explanations might be related to the fact that Maria Manasseina was afraid to become a divorced woman and so lose all the civil rights in accordance to tsarist Russia laws. We may only hope that future historians of science and medicine will shed light on it. 4Solyanyi gorodok (the Salt town) — a complex of buildings in the central part of Saint Petersburg where the greatest cultural and enlightenment center of Russia was located (before the October revolt).
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