Constantin von Monakow

Who was Constantin von Monakow?

Constantin von Monakow was a Russian-Swiss neuropathologist who was a native of Bobretsovo in the Vologda Governorate.

He studied at the University of Zurich while working as an assistant at the Burghölzli Institute under the directorship of Eduard Hitzig. After graduation, he was an assistant at St. Pirminsberg, where he performed scientific investigations of cerebral anatomy. In 1885 he returned to Zurich, where he later became director of the brain anatomy institute. In 1917 he founded the Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, and was its editor-in-chief until his death. He died in Zurich in 1930.