Shabsay Davidovich Moshkovskiy

Shabsay Davidovich Moshkovsky (1895—1982; ) was a Soviet physician, infectious disease scientist and epidemiologist with a particular interest in malaria.

Biography Moshkovsky was born on July 23, 1895, in Pinsk in the Minsk Governorate. His father was Dovid-Behr Iosifovich Moshkovsky, a teacher in a Jewish elementary school, who was shot amongst a group of 35 hostages on March 5, 1919. He had four brothers including Yakov Moshkovsky, a military and polar pilot, and Mikhail Moshkovsky, who also became a scientist, and was an academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and one of the founders of Russian pharmacology.

He wrote more than 300 scientific works, including textbooks, manuals and monographs. Under his supervision, 10 doctoral and more than 30 candidate dissertations were performed. Although similar to the comparable work of his British contemporary George Macdonald, Moshkovsky's work had little influence on malaria epidemiology in the English-speaking world. Основные закономерности эпидемиологии малярии [Basic patterns of malaria epidemiology], 1950.

Selected other works

Е. И. Марциновский (1874—1934): Паразитолог и инфекционист. [E. I. Martsinovsky (1874-1934): Parasitologist and infectious disease specialist.] The dynamics of malaria eradication. World Health Organization, 1964 Further contribution to the dynamics of malaria eradication. World Health Organization, 1966.

Biography

Корифеи отечественной медицинской паразитологии [Luminaries of Domestic Medical Parasitology].