The effect of Schelling's philosophy on Russian 

 philosophical and scientific thought became manifest at the 

 beginning of the nineteenth century with the organization in 

 Moscow of groups to study German philosophy. One of these 

 groups carried the lofty name of "The Society of Wisdom 

 Lovers," at the head of which stood V. F. Odoevskii. Among 

 Schelling's readers who showed his influence to some degree 

 were Moscow University professors M. G. Pavlov and I. I. Davydov, 

 and in particular, Professor D. M. Vellanskii of the Petersburg 

 Medical-Surgical Academy. 



Danil Mikhailovich Vellanskii had worked for Oken for 

 three years and had attended Schelling's lectures, after which, 

 in 1805, he returned to Russia believing in Schelling's views. 

 All his subsequent educational and scientific-literary 

 activities represented continuing propaganda for those ideas. 

 There is no necessity to be concerned here with Vellanskii 's 

 ideology; 11 hence, only some of his general opinions are 

 stated, and, in more detail, his opinions about embryonic 

 development, contained mainly in the book, THE BIOLOGICAL 

 INVESTIGATION OF NATURE, 12 and partly in the manual 

 issued almost a quarter of a century later, BASIC OUTLINE 

 OF GENERAL AND SPECIAL PHYSI0L0GY.13 



11. A detailed description of the scientific activities of 

 Vellanskii, especially his physiological opinions, is 

 given in the book by Kh. S. Koshtoyants, OUTLINE OF 

 THE HISTORY OF PHYSIOLOGY IN RUSSIA (1946). See 

 also the article by A. M. Levin, "D. M. Vellanskii and 

 Schellingism in Russian Medicine at the Beginning of the 

 19th Century," VRACH , Vol. 16, No. 28, 1895. 



12. THE BIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF NATURE IN ITS 

 CREATING AND CREATED QUALITY, CONTAINING THE 

 MAIN OUTLINES OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY, the work of 

 the doctor of medicine and surgery and Extraordinary 

 Professor of Physiology and Anatomy of the Imperial Medical- 

 Surgical Academy, Danil Vellanskii C1812) , xvi + 461 pp. 



13. BASIC OUTLINE OF GENERAL AND SPECIAL PHYSIOLOGY, 

 OR PHYSICS OF THE ORGANIC WORLD, the work of the 

 Academician and active professor of the Imperial 



St. Petersburg Medical- Surgical Academy, the Real 

 Councillor Soviet, Danil Vellanskii, for the supervision 

 of the teaching of physiology lectures. St. Petersburg, 

 1831. x + 502 pp. 



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