Sechenov, Ivan Mikhailovich

Born Aug. 1 (13), 1829, in the village of Teplyi Stan, now the village of Sechenovo, Gorky Oblast; died Nov. 2 (15), 1905, in Moscow. Russian naturalist and materialist; founder of the Russian school of physiology and the naturalist trend in psychology. Honorary academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1904; corresponding member, 1869).
Sechenov graduated from the Main Engineering School in St. Petersburg in 1848 and the medical faculty of Moscow University in 1856. From 1856 to 1859 he worked in the laboratories of J. Müller, E. Du Bois-Reymond, and E. Hoppe-Seyler in Berlin, O. Funke in Leipzig, K. Ludwig in Vienna, and H. Helmholtz in Heidelberg.