Klaudia Ulesko?

[Julie Buckler]

I'm posting this inquiry for a colleague.  Please reply to him at the email 
address below.  Thank you!

Is anybody interested in Klaudia Ulesko, a 
Russian women gynecological pathologist who 
published in Russian (which I cannot read) and 
German (which I can read very poorly)?  I would 
be happy to make my notes available to anyone 
interested and even provide advice on the 
scientific significance of her work.

The earliest reference I have to her is from 
Jahresberichte ьber die Fortschritte der Anatomie 
und Entwicklungsgeschichte, Erste Abtheilung Vol 
12 (a German abstracting service covering 
articles from 1883). Claudia Ulesco is reported 
to have written a paper in Wratsch from the 
histological laboratory of Dr. Lawdowsky in the 
Institute for feminine medical Courses. Her 
article is described as polemical and directed 
against the investigations of Basilius Sokoloff. 
She then disappears for some years with the 
closure of the women's medical courses.

She reappears in 1892 as K. Ulesko-Stroganowa, 
publishing in Zhurnal Akushertsva i Zhenskikh 
Bolesnei and Monatsschrift fьr Geburtshьlfe und 
Gynдkologie (by this time she has become a 
doctor/Дrtzin). In the 1890s-early 1900s, she is 
a participant in the meetings of the Obstetrical 
and Gynecological Society of St. Petersburg. Her 
published papers helped to sort out relationships 
between cell-types at the maternal-fetal 
interface in the pregnant uterus.

She publishes several papers up to 1908, when she 
describes the maternal decidua as a defence 
against invading cells of the placenta, then a 
hiatus until 1924 when she resumes publishing in 
Ob/Gyn journals and is described as a 
Privatdozent at the State Clinical Institute of 
Obstetrics and Gynecology in Leningrad. By 1929, 
she has the title of Professor. I have 
descriptions of her directing a laboratory in 
experimental oncology. After 1931, she appears to 
have published mainly in Russian. Evidence in the 
English language for her later career comes from:

Baranova, E. I. (1966) Cytochemical investigation 
of decidual cells of human placenta. Federation 
Proceedings 25 (translation supplement): 
T871-T873. [translated from Arkhiv Anatomii, 
Gistologii i Embriologii 69 (11): 35].

Baranova refers to two books written by 
Ulesko-Stroganowa (1926: The practice of 
medicine, Leningrad; 1939: Normal and 
pathological anatomy and histology of the female 
reproductive organs. Medgiz, Leningrad). Her long 
career (publications from 1883-1939) spans a very 
interesting period in Russian/Soviet history)

David Haig (dhaig at oeb.harvard.edu)

Professor
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University,
26 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138

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