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Professor D.N. Zernov and his collection of wax models of the human brain

Vorontsova E.L.,Kozhina E.A.E.A.,Pupykin V.S.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Vorontsova Elena L., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7817-7274, e-mail: elena.l.vorontsova@gmail.com; Kozhina E.A. E.A., e-mail: e_kozhina@mail.ru; Pupykin V.S., e-mail: v.pupykin@mail.ru

Abstract

D.N. Zernov (1843–1917) was a professor of anatomy at Moscow University, Rector of the Uni-versity (1898–1899). D.N. Zernov was the organizer of the Institute of normal anatomy museum at the anatomical theater of Moscow University (1876), the author of the textbook « Rukovodstvo opisatel’noy anatomii cheloveka » («The Guide to Descriptive Human Anatomy»), that had 14 reprints from 1890 to 1939. D.N. Zernov was one of the organizers of the Anthropological exhibition in 1879 in Moscow. He personally made 16 wax models of cerebral hemispheres. These models were the copies from prepara-tions used to study the variations of the brain sulci structures in humans. The results of the study are de-scribed in his paper « Individual’nye tipy mozgovych izvilin cheloveka » («Individual Types of Humans Brain Gyrus»), 1877. After the anthropological exhibition the wax models were added to anthropological collections of Moscow University, and nowadays are kept in the Museum of Anthropology, Moscow State University.

Keywords

anthropology, anatomy, D.N. Zernov, Moscow State University, Anthropological exhibition (1879, Moscow), wax models of human brain, Museum of Anthropology, anthropological collections

Цит.: Vorontsova E.L.,Kozhina E.A.E.A.,Pupykin V.S. Professor D.N. Zernov and his collection of wax models of the human brain // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2015; 1/2015; с. 76-85