Abdulkhaliq Akhundov

The first medical doctor of Azerbaijan, writer, publicist and public figure. He graduated from the faculty of medicine in 1888 of Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen in Germany. Here for work on the subject of  clinical investigation of eye apple he received the scientific degree of doctor of medicine (this work was published in 1890 n that city as a book). After returning Baku the first eye diseases station.In Baku he investigated the history of East and West pharmacology, work of classical Greek and Arab scholars on pharmacology and published it in German city Leipzig, in the newspaper “Zeitshrift der Deutshcen morgenlendishen Gaselsheft.He translated work of doctor of X century Abu Mansur bin Ali al-Haravi about preparation of drugs from 466 plants and 44 animals from classical Arabic into German in 1892 and wrote comments to it and presented it in Derpt (now the city of Tartu in Estonia) University, received  a degree of doctor of medicine. He opened two drug-stores in the late nineteenth century in Baku.He is also one of founders of clinic for treating of mental diseases together with Doctor Mahammadrza Vekilov. He worked in this hospital opened in Apr 24, 1892 till 1903.He is the author of medical books published in 1914-1919: Treatment book (1914), Children\'s memory (1916), Diseases of digestion organs (1919) and he tried a lot of for opening University in Azerbaijan.