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

Bozhchenko A.P.; Barinov E.Kh.

doi:https://doi.org/10.17116/sudmed20256804148

Bozhchenko A.P.

S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy

ORCID: 0000-0001-7841-0913

Barinov E.Kh.

Russian University of Medicine;
Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

ORCID: 0000-0003-4236-4219

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

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Bozhchenko A.P., Barinov E.Kh.

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Journal: Forensic Medical Expertise. 2025;68(4): 48‑54

DOI: 10.17116/sudmed20256804148

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Bozhchenko AP, Barinov EKh. Petr Petrovich Einbrodt — a pioneer of forensic ballistics in Russia (to the 200th anniversary of the first national work on gunshot wound). Forensic Medical Expertise. 2025;68(4):48‑54. (In Russ.)
https://doi.org/10.17116/sudmed20256804148

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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.

Keywords:

entry wound

exit wound

tissue defect

classification of gunshot wounds

gunshot wound

P.P.Einbrodt

forensic ballistics

Authors:

Bozhchenko A.P.

S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy

ORCID: 0000-0001-7841-0913

Barinov E.Kh.

Russian University of Medicine;
Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

ORCID: 0000-0003-4236-4219

Received:

31.10.2024

Accepted:

05.11.2024

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