Umanets, Oleksander

Umanets, Oleksander [Уманець, Олександер; Umanec'], b 23 October 1808 in Simferopol, Tavriia gubernia, d 26 December 1877 in Saint Petersburg. Epidemiologist with a specialization in quarantine. A graduate of Moscow University (1830), Umanets was director of the Odesa Quarantine Office (1840–8). In 1842–3 he traveled to Egypt with a government commission to investigate heat disinfection of the clothes of plague victims. His report (1845) was translated into German and French. Later he published his memoirs of the trip to the Middle East (1850) and a survey history of the Black Sea coastal region (1887).

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