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About Sir James Wylie
Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet was a Scottish physician known in Russia as Яков Васильевич Виллие. From 1790 to 1829, he served in the Imperial Russian army as a battlefield surgeon in more than 50 battles; in the final 40 of those concurrently directing all battlefield medicine. He held that role from 1806 until 1854; also from 1798 until 1854 physician to three tsars; and from 1808 to 1838 the president of Saint Petersburg's Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy. His name is inseparably connected with the creation of both battlefield medicine and a national corps of Russian-born military doctors within the Imperial Russia during the first half of the 19th century, plus transformation of its military medical training. He is well known within Russia.
Everything about Sir James Wylie →- Occupation
- physician, surgeon
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- November 20, 1768, 1766
- Died
- March 2, 1854, 1854