Volf Bronner

Professor
Volf Moiseevich Bronner
Soviet anti-syphilis propaganda, Moscow, 1926. Image shows Dr Volf Bronner to the right of the wagon, outside the State Venereological Institute.[1]
Born1876
Died1939
NationalityRussian
EducationUniversity of Berlin
Known forFounded State Venereology Institute, Moscow
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician
InstitutionsState Venereology Institute, Moscow
Sub-specialtiesVenereology

Volf (or Wolf) Moiseevich Bronner (Russian: Вольф Моисеевич Броннер) (1876–1939) was a Russian Empire and Soviet physician, venereologist, and anti-syphilis campaigner who founded the State Venereological Institute in Moscow of which he became the director.

He was politically active in his youth, and expelled from his first university for it.

  1. ^ Solomon, Susan Gross (1993). "The Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition to Buriat Mongolia, 1928: Scientific Research on National Minorities". Slavic Review. 52 (2): 204–232. doi:10.2307/2499920. JSTOR 2499920. S2CID 156660997.(subscription required)