Konstantin Konik M.D.

Doctor of Medicine

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 (December 19, 1873 - August 3, 1936) was an Estonia

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n politician

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 and surgeon

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, member of the Estonian Salvation Committee

Konstantin Konik was born to a working class family, his father made living as a carter. After studying at the Governorate Gymnasium in Dorpat, Konstantin Konik graduated from faculty of Medicine of the University of Dorpat in 1873, and made his doctorate

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 degree at the Odessa University

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 in 1903.

On March 8, 1920 Konik made history at the University of Tartu by giving the first lecture ever made on medicine

Medicine

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 in Estonian

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. The University of Tartu was established as an Estonian institution only in 1919, it had been the University of Dorpat, a Baltic German

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institution, before, where only German and since the 1880-90s Russian language had been used.