Vladimir Korenchevsky

Vladimir Korenchevsky was a Russian-British pathologist, gerontologist, pharmacologist, and bacteriologist.

Biography Vladimir Korenchevsky was born on 15 January 1880 in the town Ashmyany, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire. In 1898 Korenchevsky graduated from school in Riga with the silver medal, and in 1903 he graduated from the Imperial Military Medical Academy with honors. He was a doctor in a military field hospital during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05). After war he participated in the elimination of plague outbreaks in Mongolia. Then he worked in the medical faculty of the Imperial Moscow University where he became interested in gerontology. In 1908, he trained in the laboratory of Élie Metchnikoff in the Pasteur Institute in Paris. In 1910, at the invitation of Ivan Pavlov, he worked in the Institute of Experimental Medicine.

In 1919 Korenchevsky moved to Sevastopol where he worked at the Sevastopol Biological Station. During Russian Civil War he joined to the White Army, where he was an assistant to the general Anton Denikin on sanitary issues. At that time Korenchevsky taught at the medical faculty of the newly formed Taurida University.

Some people called Vladimir Korenchevsky a "father of gerontology", although in the science such things is often ambiguous and the same title is also applied to Élie Metchnikoff and some other people who were active in the field of aging research already after Korenchevsky.