RENT Nikolai Fyodorovich

RENT Nikolai Fedorovich (1786-1859) - court physician of Alexander I. Born in 1786 in Kazan, where his father served as a physician. Educated in the St. Petersburg Medico-Surgical Academy, where he graduated from the course in 1805. As a military physician participated in all the campaigns against Napoleon at the conclusion of peace he was appointed chief doctor of Russian occupation corps, remaining in France. Renowned as a skillful and courageous surgeon. The mystery of the incredible success of its operations is largely rooted in the careful care, which he was surrounded by the patient after the transaction. "For a perfect knowledge of medicine, proven set of operations", the ministerial committee, with the highest approval, made it in 1821 without an examination of the doctor of medicine and surgery. 1820-26 he. - Chief doctor of artillery Hospital in St. Petersburg. In 1829 he was appointed physician-in-a physician, in 1847 - medical inspector institutions Empress Maria. Was among the doctors who assisted mortally wounded in a duel Pushkin.