Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet

Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet
Portrait of Wylie by Mihály Zichy (1841)
Born
James Wylie

13 or 20 November 1768
Tulliallan, Kincardine-on-Forth, Scotland
Died2 March 1854(1854-03-02) (aged 85)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh, King's College, Aberdeen
Known forone of the organizers of military medicine in Russia
AwardsRussian Empire

Order of Saint Vladimir 2nd Class (1812)
Order of St. Anna 1st Class (1814, since 1821 with diamonds)
Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky 3rd Class (1828, since 1838 with diamonds)
Order of Saint Vladimir 1st Class (1840)
Austria
Order of Leopold 2nd Class
Bavaria
Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown, Commander
France
Legion of Honour, Chevalier (1807 or 1809)
Prussia
Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class (1835)
Württemberg

Order of the Crown
Scientific career
Fieldssurgery, military medicine

Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet (Russian: Я́ков Васи́льевич Ви́ллие Yakov Vasilyevich Villiye; 13 November 1768[1]  – 2 March 1854), was a Scottish physician who served as a battlefield surgeon and as a court physician in the Russian Empire from 1790 until his death in 1854, and as President of the Russian Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy from 1808 to 1838. He is considered one of the organizers of military medicine in Russia[citation needed] by some by whom the role of the indigenous Russian Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov as the "father of combat medicine"[2] may appear to be less valued.

  1. ^ MacPherson, Hamish (1 March 2020). "Back in the Day - The Scot who treated the Czars". Sunday National. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  2. ^ Dvoyris, Vladislav; Kreiss, Yitshak; Bader, Tarif (30 May 2016). "Treatment Capabilities of Field Hospitals at War and Mass-Casualty Disasters". In Wolfson, Nikolaj; Lerner, Alexander; Roshal, Leonid (eds.). Orthopedics in Disasters: Orthopedic Injuries in Natural Disasters and Mass Casualty Events. Berlin: Springer (published 2016). p. 38. ISBN 9783662489505. Retrieved 18 August 2022. [...] it is his work during the Crimean War of 1853–1856 that established Pirogov as the father of combat medicine.