Danylevsky, Vasyl

Danylevsky, Vasyl [Данилевський, Василь; Danylevs'kyj, Vasyl'], b 25 January 1852 in Kharkiv, d 25 February 1939 in Kharkiv. Brother of Oleksander Danylevsky, physiologist, full member of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1926. Danylevsky was professor at Kharkiv University in 1883–1909 and 1917–21 and at the Kharkiv Medical Institute in 1921–6. His works deal with the nervous system, electrophysiology, endocrinology, protistology, hypnosis in humans and animals, etc. He identified the brain centers that regulate the activity of the internal organs.

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