Pavel Jacobiy

Pavel Ivanovich Jacobiy ( or Якоби; , He was a pioneer of the Pinel reforms of psychiatry in Russia, credited to be first who formulated all the principles for the new paradigm in the organizational psychiatry.

Pavel Jacobiy was a born to a noble family of retired colonel Ivan Karlovich Jacobiy. He was heavily wounded in the at Kruszyna on 30 August 1863. After recovering he was the Chief of Staff of Insurgent formations in Galicia.

In 1871 during the Franco-Prussian War Jacobi served as a military doctor in the Army of the Vosges led by Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Pavel Jacobi died in Saint Petersburg in 1913. His son, Ivan Palvovich Jacobiy was a notable political thinker of White Emigre, the author of the book Nicholas II and the Revolution (Tallinn, 1937).

Major works Проект организации земского попечения о душевнобольных Московской губернии, ч. 1–2, М., 1891–92; (Project of organization zemstvo care of mental patients of Moscow Gubernia, in two volumes, 1891–1892) Основы административной психиатрии, Орел, 1900; (Basics of Administrative Psychiatry), 1900 ) Глухонемые, СПБ, 1907; (Deaf and Dumb, 1907) Вятичи Орловской губернии, СПБ, 1907 {Vyatichs of Orel Gubernia, 1907)