Croatian History

Professor Hedvig Hričak earned her MD degree from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and her Dr. Med. Sc. from the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. She is the Chairman of the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the first woman on that position. Dr. Hricak is President-Elect and Secretary Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). She is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and an…

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Igor Stagljar, Croatian scientist leading of group of young scientists in Toronto, Canada, began developing an original biological method for the identification of new proteins involved in the development of cancer. This method paved the way for the research of grave genetic diseases, particularly cystic fibrosis.

Expelling the Plague / The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533 By Zlata Blazina Tomic and Vesna Blazina, McGill Queen’s University Press, 2015 A ground-breaking study about plague control measures in medieval and early modern Croatia. A vibrant city-state on the Adriatic sea, Dubrovnik, also known as Ragusa, was a hub for the international trade between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. As a result, the city suffered frequent outbreaks of plague. Through a comprehensive analysis of…

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An amazing anti-war, pacifist sermon was given in 1778 by an anonymous Croatian preacher to Croatian soldiers, immediately before the battle between Austrian and Prussian troops in Bohemia: in Croatian in English At that time majority of soldiers for Austrian army were recruited from Croats (that’s how the necktie, ie., Cravate, had spread throughout the world): out of 80-100,000 Austrian soldiers, about 60,000 were Croats. While the Croatian original of this remarkable sermon is still unknown, that same year eight…

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25.05.10 The award to the founder of Institute for Bible Translation (IBT) Dr. Borislav Arapovic, of an honorary diploma as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences “May God Bless Russia” – those were the concluding words of Dr. Arapovic’s response speech at the ceremony of awarding him an honorary Foreign Member’s diploma of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Born in 1935 in Bosnia Hercegovina, and later an immigrant to Sweden, Borislav Arapovic became the initiator of the…

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Igor Rudan, working on global health problems, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland. A considerable number of contemporary Croatian scientists are having a world wide reputation. It would be impossible to mention them all in a small essay like this. See [Distinguished Croatian scientists in the world, I, II, III]. Martyrdom in Croatian Homeland War (1990-1995), lecture delivered in Zagreb by dr. Juraj Njavro in 2005, surgeon at the Vukovar Hospital in 1991, [PPT, in Croatian]….

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Logo of the Hungry Child International Fund Humanitarian activity of the International Fund Hungry Child is world-wide known. Its founder (1969 in Zagreb) and the Secretary General was Vladimir Palecek (1940-1990). Only in the period from 1969 to 1979 humanitarian aid (medicaments, food, clothing, ambulances, money) has been sent to: Afganistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Bhurma, Chad, Columbia, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gibouty, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenia, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozabique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Rwanda,…

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