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Karapet Agadzhanian
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Karapet Sarkisovich Agadzhanian (Կարապետ Սարգսի Աղաջանյան; Карапет Саркисович Агаджанянц; 1876, Tiflis — 15 December 1955, Paris) was a Russian-Armenian psychiatrist, neurologist and neuroanatomist.
Karapet Sarkisovich Agadzhanian was born in the family of an archpriest of the Armenian Gregorian Church. In 1896 he graduated from the 1st Tiflis Gymnasium. In 1901 he graduated with honors from the Medical Faculty of the Imperial Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. He was an apprentice, and later one of the associates of Vladimir Bekhterev.
In 1904 he defended his doctoral dissertation: "On the cortical center of view." In 1905, he became a laboratory assistant at the Clinic for the Mental and Nervous Diseases of the Academy; from 1906 — assistant, and since 1909 — privat-docent of the Clinic for the Mental and Nervous Diseases at St. Petersburg Women's Medical Institute.
In 1910 he trained in Berlin, where he studied neuroanatomy under the guidance of the German neurologist Luis Jacobson-Lask,. After returning to Russia, he worked at Mikhailovsky Hospital in Tiflis. In 1911 he was appointed Director of the Physiotherapeutic polyclinic of the St. Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute. He was a member of the Committee of the St. Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute and read the course lectures about nervous diseases. From November 1913 to January 1915 he was a professor at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Warsaw, and after the evacuation of the University to Rostov-on-Don, he continued his work at Rostov University. In 1915 he appointed a consultant on nerve diseases on the Southern Front.
In 1920 he emigrated to Turkey; from 1922 he taught at the University of Constantinople. In 1924 he moved to France. In 1924–1929 he was a member, then a member of the board, and from 1937–1948, chairman and honorary chairman of the Society of Russian Physicians named after Mechnikov in France. In 1928 he defended a thesis for a doctorate in medicine at the University of Paris.
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