[Petr Petrovich Einbrodt - a pioneer of forensic ballistics in Russia (to the 200th anniversary of the first national work on gunshot wound)].

Abstract

In 2024, the 200th anniversary of the first domestic work devoted to the study of gunshot injury was celebrated.

Objective: To present little-known information from the biography of its author, Professor P.P. Einbrodt.

Material and methods: Archival documents and open literary sources devoted to the life and work of the scientist were studied. The methods of historical and literary analysis were used.

Results and conclusion: It has been established that P.P. Einbrodt was a graduate of the Imperial Moscow University, where he began teaching anatomy immediately after graduation, and forensic medicine - in 1835-1836. He wrote his main work on forensic medicine, namely «On gunshot wounds», in 1824, when he was a student. A complete and comprehensive description of gunshot wound was given for the first time in Russian medical science, differential diagnostic signs of entry and exit wounds were presented, a forensic classification of gunshot wounds, based on criteria specific to forensic medicine, such as the damaging properties of a traumatic object (gunshot projectile) and the mechanism of damage formation (depending on the velocity of the gunshot projectile, the properties of the body's damaged part), was presented.