title: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Writer, physician and tuberculosis patient.
abstract: Chekhov chose writing as a career after a childhood of hardship and poverty. Tuberculosis manifested soon after medical graduation and caused his death at the age of 44. Essentially a short story writer, he used simplicity and impressionism to portray sympathetically the psychology of the common man. Similarly his plays, popular today, written in a light and ethereal style, while static, have an inner psychological evolution. The best example is The Cherry Orchard.
mesh_terms: D005197:Famous Persons; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008297:Male; D012425:Russia (Pre-1917); D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000266:history*