Danylevsky, Oleksander

Danylevsky, Oleksander [Данилевський, Олександер; Danylevs'kyj], b 10 December 1838 in Kharkiv, d 8 June 1923 in Petrograd. Biochemist, founder of biochemistry in Ukraine and the Russian Empire. Danylevsky was a corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences from 1898 and a professor at Kazan University (1864–71) and Kharkiv University (1885–92) and at the Saint Petersburg Military Medical Academy (from 1892). He produced studies on biopolymer exchanges, enzymes and antienzymes, the physiology of the nervous system, and dietary regimens. Together with his brother, Vasyl Danylevsky, he initiated the publication, in Kharkiv, of the first medical journal of physiology in the Russian Empire (1888–91).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]