Alexander Prussak

Alexander Fedorovich Prussak (1839 – 20 January 1897, in St. Petersburg) was a Russian otologist.

He studied at the Medical-Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg, obtaining his medical degree in 1862. Afterwards, he studied abroad for a few years, and following his return to St. Petersburg, he attained a professorship in otology at the Academy (1870).

He is remembered for his studies involving the vasomotor branches of the ear. His name is associated with "Prussak's fibers", which is elastic and connective tissue fiber bounding Shrapnell's membrane, and with "Prussak's space", a small recess of the middle ear. Zur Physiologie und Anatomie des Blutstromes in der Trommelhöhle, 1868 – The physiology and anatomy involving blood supply to the tympanic membrane.