Allegreti, Nikša
Allegreti, Nikša, physiology professor, one of the founders of modern immunology in the region; mentored a number of regional immunologists; responsible for organizing biological research at the Ruđer Bošković Institute and the Central Institute for Tumours, and for founding the Centre for Marine Research in Rovinj.
Botteri, Albert
Botteri, Albert, doctor (Split, 4 October 1879 – Zagreb, 20 February 1955). A Professor at the School of Medicine in Ljubljana (1920) and Zagreb (1920-1951), founder of the Ophthalmology Clinic (1923). Internationally recognized expert in the area of trachoma. Correspondent of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1930).
Bubanović, Fran
Bubanović, Fran, chemist (Sisak, 19 November 1883 – Zagreb, 6 February 1956). He studied in Zagreb under G. Janeček, further education in Groningen, Stockholm, and Vienna. Professor of chemistry at the newly established School of Medicine in Zagreb (from 1918). Founder and head of the Department of Medical Chemistry. He was primarily involved in physical chemistry (liquid state, living cell, membranes), analytical chemistry, and biochemistry. Authored textbooks containing complete inorganic, organic chemistry, and biochemistry.
Čupar, Ivo
Čupar, Ivo, dentist (Brod on Savi, 29 September 1901 – Zagreb, 28. September 1981). He studied medicine in Prague and Berlin, where he received his PhD in 1928. At the Zagreb Otorhinolaryngology Clinic (1934), he founded and led the Division for Jaw Surgery. In 1939 he founded a dental clinic in Zagreb, which he will run as Clinical Department of Maxillofacial Surgery until 1972. Being the pioneer of jaw surgery in the region, he introduced new surgical procedures and prosthetic structures. He was a Professor at the School of Medicine in Zagreb and a full member of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts; a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award (1974).
Durst, Franjo
Durst, Francis, doctor (Zagreb, 6 September 1875 – Zagreb, 16 September 1958). Graduated from Graz (1899). From 1905, the head of Zagreb's Maternity Hospital which he transformed into the Gynaecology Clinic in 1921 (until 1952). He was a Professor at the School of Medicine in Zagreb and a full member of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was the first in the region to unite gynaecology and obstetrics.
Kogoj, Franjo
Kogoj, Francis, doctor (Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, 13 October 1894 – Kranjska Gora, 30 September 1983). A clinical assistant in Prague and an Assistant Professor in Brno. From 1923 he worked at the Dermatovenereology Clinic in Zagreb, which he headed from 1927 to 1965. Professor at the Zagreb School of Medicine (he was the Dean four times). From 1967 to 74 he was the director of the Institute for Medical Clinical Research of the School of Medicine and the University Hospital Centre Zagreb. He studied allergies, skin tuberculosis, eczema, and keratoderma, and described spongiform pustules (which bear his name in the medical literature). He warned of the so-called cystic moment in the treatment of syphilis. He was the organizer of research and Dermatovenereology Clinic in Ljubljana. Full member of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts and its vice president. Honorary and correspondent member of many academies and societies, doctor honoris causa of four universities.
Mayerhofer, Ernst
Mayerhofer, Ernst, doctor (Möllersdorf near Vienna, 24 October 1877 – Zagreb, 7 February 1957). Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna School of Medicine. In 1922 he founded and ran the Children's Hospital in Zagreb until 1951. Professor at the Zagreb School of Medicine. In Vienna, he founded the first collection centre of preserved mother's milk. In particular, he dealt with the problem of child nutrition, defined allergic syndrome of newborns, described the new illness of ustilaginism.
Perović, Drago
Perović, Drago, doctor (Gorica near Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 20 September 1888 – Zagreb, 6 January 1968). Firstly, an Anatomy Assistant in Vienna from where he was invited to Zagreb, where he, with lectures on 12 January 1918, opened the School of Medicine, where he was a Professor. He paid the greatest attention to teaching by creating a model anatomical institute with a museum collection. He specialized in functional anatomy of labyrinth, nose, and paranasal sinuses, revealing unknown anatomical details and important regularities in the development of these formations. Full member of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Prašek, Emil
Prašek, Emil, doctor (Dub, Czech Republic, 2 September 1884 – Zagreb, 1 February 1934). Bacteriologists and hygienist. From 1918, head of the Health Department at Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 1921 to 34, Professor of hygiene and microbiology at the School of Medicine in Zagreb, responsible for its organization.
Radoničić, Karlo
Radoničić, Karlo, doctor (Trieste, 15 November 1879 – Zagreb, 12 November 1935). Clinical Assistant in Vienna and Innsbruck, from 1919 the founder and head of the Zagreb Medical (Internal) Clinic; a Professor at the Zagreb School of Medicine and a correspondent member of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He studied liver pathophysiology and mediastinal pathology. He made an important contribution to the diagnostic evaluation of the Oliver-Cardarelli sign, described paradoxical breathing in the diaphragm (Radoničić symptom). He was the Dean of the Zagreb School of Medicine (1926/1927 and 1930-1932), the Rector of the University of Zagreb (1920/1921), the president of the Croatian Medical Association (1927-1929) and an Admiral in the Boka Navy.
Radošević, Eduard
Radošević, Eduard, dentist (Mrkopalj, 22 February 1884 – Zagreb, 6 February 1939). Dental doctor in Zagreb. In 1922 he founded the Department of Dentistriy and Dental Clinic at the Zagreb School of Medicine where he was a Professor. He strived to explain all the phenomena in the tooth using methods of physical chemistry and, by experimentally studying osmosis, permeability, transpiration, etc., he concluded that the tooth, especially the dental enamel, is not dead but living matter, which introduced new foundations in the understanding of the physiology and pathology of the tooth. He presented his own theory about the formation of dental caries.
Riessner, Danko
Riessner, Danko, doctor. (Hrvatska Kostajnica, 21 March 1907 – Zagreb, 23 July 1973). From 1931 he worked at the Surgery Clinic in Zagreb, was its head (1944-1945); a Professor at the Zagreb School of Medicine. From 1953 to 1962, head of the Surgery Department of the Dr. M. Stojanović Hospital in Zagreb, and then worked as a surgeon in Cologne and Essen. He was the initiator of Croatian neurosurgery.
Saltykow, Sergej Nikolajević
Saltykow, Sergei Nikolajevič, doctor (Vyshny Volochyok, Russia, 1 April 1874 – Zagreb, 2 October 1964). Assistant Professor of pathology in Basel, then a Professor in Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine. From 1922 to 1952, Professor at the School of Medicine in Zagreb, founder of the Institute for Pathological Anatomy. Specifically studied constitutive pathology, transplantation, and regeneration.
Šercer, Ante
Šercer, Ante, doctor (Požega, 12 April 1896 – Zagreb, 25 June 1968). He studied medicine in Graz and Prague (1919). From 1920 to 1945 he worked at the Otorhinolaryngology Clinic in Zagreb, where he was the head from 1929 to 1945. From 1946 he was the head of the Division of Otorhinolaryngology at the University Hospital Sestre Milosrdnice, which in 1964 became a university division. He led it until 1966 and established the Research Institute for the Study and Protection of the Ear and Respiratory Organs. He established the Institute for Thalassotherapy in Crikvenica. He was a Professor at the School of Medicine in Zagreb and its Dean (1936-1937 and 1943-1945). He was also credited with improving the teaching and establishment of the Sarajevo School of Medicine (1944). He was the first of Croatian clinicians who obtained medical recognition due to the discovery of nasothoracic reflexes, interpreting the formation of nasal partition and otosclerosis, plastic and reconstructive treatments of the nose and ear. He was the editor for the field of medicine of the Croatian Encyclopaedia and chief editor of the Medical encyclopaedia, and for the encyclopaedic work Otorhinolaryngology he was awarded the City of Zagreb Award. From 1930 to 1945, he was a member of the Yugoslavian/Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Špišić (Spišić), Božidar
Špišić (Spišić), Božidar, doctor (Sisak, 6 September 1879 – Zagreb, 31 July 1957). In 1908 founded a private Orthopaedic Institute Zagreb, first in the region, in 1916 our first Orthopaedic Hospital, and in 1929 an Orthopaedic Clinic, which he ran until 1945. Professor at the School of Medicine in Zagreb, Rector of the University of Zagreb (1943-1944), correspondent member of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The initiator of orthopaedics in Croatia; in particular, he advocated functional treatment and developed several original therapeutic procedures. He was the organizer of planned care for crippled children and the persons with disability caused by war and labour.
Štampar, Andrija
Štampar, Andrej, doctor, hygienist and social medicine specialist (Drenovac near Pleternica, 1 September 1888 – Zagreb, 26 June 1958). From 1919 he was the head of the hygienic service of the Ministry of Public Health in Belgrade, laying the foundations of public health services in Yugoslavia and establishing a number of social health care institutions. Building advanced medicine, he faced a difficult conflict with commercialized medicine, and because of his social democratic ideology, he became unsuitable for the ruling circles. After his forced retirement in 1931, he was an expert at the Hygiene Organization of the League of Nations in China, organizing public health service there. Director of the School of Public Health in Zagreb, Professor and long-time Dean of the Zagreb School of Medical, responsible for the teaching reform, establishment of a Professional School for Nursing and the School of Medicine in Rijeka. He was the Rector of the University of Zagreb (1945-1946), a regular member and president of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1947-1958), within which he founded the Institute for Labour Hygiene. From 1946 he was president of the Interim Commission, which served as the World Health Organization (WHO) until its founding in 1948. He drafted the WHO Constitution and presided over the first World Health Assembly in Geneva in 1948. First Vice-president of the UN Economic and Social Council.
Vidaković, Stjepan
Vidaković, Stjepan, doctor (Varaždin, 15 December 1890 – Zagreb, 20 October 1984). From 1918 to 61 he worked at the Zagreb Gynaecology and Obstetrics Clinic, where he first led the gynaecological part of the Institute for Radiumtherapy, and then (1952-1961) led the Clinic and was a Professor at the School of Medicine in Zagreb. He was involved in the operational gynaecology, X-ray gynaecological diagnostics, and radiotherapy of genital cancer.
Zarnik, Boris
Zarnik, Boris, a biologist (Ljubljana, 11. March 1883 – Zagreb, 13 January 1945). From 1904 to 1915 he worked in Würzburgu, at the Zoological Institute of renowned T. Bovery and was an Associate Professor at the University there. From 1915 to 1918, a Professor at the University of Constantinople, where he founded and organized the Zoological Institute. in 1918 to 1942, he was a Professor of biology, histology and embryology at the Zagreb School of Medicine, where he founded and managed the Morphology and Biology Institute. He studied the comparative anatomy of amphioxus and the mechanics of development in which he was a supporter of Darwinism. He also dealt with anthropology by discussing eugenics and race. President of the Croatian Natural History Society (1927-1928).