Subbotin, Viktor

Subbotin, Viktor [Субботін, Віктор], b 13 March 1844 in Pryluky, Poltava gubernia, d 29 September 1898 in Kyiv. Hygienist. A graduate of Kyiv University (1867), he completed a doctoral dissertation (1869) and specialized abroad. From 1872 he was a professor in the departments of hygiene, forensic medicine, medical geography, and statistics at Kyiv University, and from 1884 he was dean of the medical faculty. He was an active member of the Kyiv Medical Society and a founder of the Russian Society for the Protection of Public Health (1887). He took part in efforts to control cholera and typhus epidemics in Kyiv. His publications, written mostly in German, dealt with food hygiene, community hygiene, epidemiology, questions of physiology, and the organization of health care. His textbook on hygiene was printed in 1882.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]