Frenkel Z. G., (1869-1970), sanitarian

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FRENKEL Zakhary Grigorievich (1869-1970, Leningrad), sanitarian and gerontologist, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1945). He graduated from the faculty of medicine of Yuryev University (1895) and worked as a district sanitary doctor. He was a Deputy of the First State Duma (1906). Frenkel created the chairs of social hygiene in a number of medical institutes (the first was created in the State Institute of Medicine in 1920, now Mechnikov Medical Academy). Frenkel was a founder of the Society of Workers of Sanitation and Epidemiology (from 1939 the Society of Sanitarians, Sanitary Doctors and Epidemiologists). He was one of the organisers and honoured representative of the Scientific Society of Gerontologists and Geriatricians of Leningrad (1955). He was buried in the Kazanskoe Cemetery in Pushkin.

References: Алексеева Л. П., Мерабишвили В. М. З. Г. Френкель. М., 1971.

T. I. Grekova. Frenkel Zahary Grigorievich
Mechnikov Ilya Ilyich
Алексеева Л. П., Мерабишвили В. М. З. Г. Френкель. М., 1971 State Duma
Mechnikov Medical Academy
Kazanskoe Cemetery