Vysokovych, Volodymyr

Vysokovych, Volodymyr [Високович, Володимир; Vysokovyč], b 28 January 1854 in Haisyn, Podilia gubernia, d 26 May 1912 in Kyiv. Anatomical pathologist, bacteriologist, and epidemiologist. A graduate of Kharkiv University (1876), from 1895 he was a professor at Kyiv University. He helped organize and taught at the Women’s Medical Courses in Kyiv and directed efforts to control the plague and cholera in Kharkiv (1892), Bombay (1896), Odesa (1902, 1910), and Kyiv (1906). His chief achievement was the discovery of the reticuloendothelial system, and he wrote O kholere (On Cholera, 1907) and Patologicheskaia anatomiia (Pathological Anatomy, 2 vols, 1911, 1913).

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