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Ivan Horbachevsky

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yakovych and the family name is Horbachevsky.
Ivan Horbachevsky
Іван Горбачевський
Born(1854-05-15)15 May 1854
Zarubyntsi, Galicia-Lodomeria, Austrian Empire
(now Ukraine)
Died24 May 1942(1942-05-24) (aged 88)
Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
(now Czech Republic)
NationalityAustria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsCharles University of Prague
Ukrainian Free University

Ivan Yakovych Horbachevsky (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Горбачевський; 15 May 1854 – 24 May 1942),[1] also known as Jan Horbaczewski, Johann Horbaczewski or Ivan Horbaczewski, was an Austrian chemist and politician of Ukrainian origin.

Biography

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Ivan Horbachevsky was born on 15 May 1854 in the village of Zarubyntsi, now Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine (then the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire) in the family of a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church priest, parson of Zbarazh, Fr Yakov Horbachevsky (1817 – July 14, 1875, Zbarazh[2]) of the Korczak family.[3]

He graduated from the First Ternopil Classical Gymnasium, where he became one of the first members of the "Hromada" circle, founded by a 6th grade student Ivan Pului in January 1863.

From 1872 to 1878 he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, Austria.[1] In 1883, he was appointed extraordinary professor and, in 1884, ordinary professor at the University of Prague by the Emperor, and was the rector of the same university for a time. He is particularly known for his contributions in organic chemistry and biochemistry. He was the first to synthesise uric acid from glycine in 1882.[4][5] He also noticed that amino acids were building blocks of proteins. Horbachevsky worked in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Ukraine. It was as though the Dual Monarchy was responding to the Spanish flu when, on 30 July 1918, Imperial Councillor Ivan Horbachevsky was appointed by imperial decree the empire’s first health minister.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Іван Горбачевський — біохімік та перший міністр охорони здоров'я Австрії". Інтерактивний Український Відень (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-02-12.
  2. ^ Dmytro Blazejowskyj. Historical Šematism of the Archeparchy of L'viv (1832—1944). — Kyiv : Publishing house «KM Akademia», 2004. — 570 s. — S. 143. — ISBN 966-518-225-0.
  3. ^ Гонський Я. Іван Горбачевський у спогадах і листуваннях (нарис) Archived 2015-04-07 at the Wayback Machine. — Тернопіль : Укрмедкнига, 2004. — p. 138.
  4. ^ Hitchings, G. H. (1978). "Uric Acid: Chemistry and Synthesis". In Kelley, William N.; Weiner, Irwin M. (eds.). Uric Acid. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Vol. 51. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 1–20. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-66867-8_1. ISBN 978-3-642-66869-2.
  5. ^ Horbaczewski, Johann (July 1882). "Synthese der Harnsäure". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft (in German). 15 (2): 2678. doi:10.1002/cber.188201502236. S2CID 92323943.
  6. ^ Salfellner, Harald (2018). The Spanish Flu. A Story of the 1918 Pandemic. Praha: Vitalis. p. 75. ISBN 978-3-89919-511-8.
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