Josif Holec
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Јоsif Holec (Тuržice, Austria-Hungary, 1835 — Belgrade, 1898) was a colonel and a physician in the Serbian Army, one of the founders of the Serbian medical Society in 1873.[1]
Life and career
He was born in 1835 in Turžice in Bohemia then part of the Austrian Empire. Holec studied medicine in Prague [2] and Vienna. He was promoted to doctor of medicine, surgery and master of obstetrics in 1861 in Vienna.
After being promoted to doctor of medicine in 1861, he came to Serbia, where he first worked as a district physician in Paraćin, and then as a district physicist in Kruševac.
As a military doctor since 1866, he first worked in the position of a doctor in the Internal Department Military Hospital in Belgrade, and then as the manager of the Central Military Hospital in Belgrade from 1873.
He took part in Serbian–Turkish Wars (1876–1878) and the Serbian-Bulgarian War, performing important duties within the medical service.
He died in Belgrade in 1898 at the age of 62.
Work
As a prominent medical officer, he was a permanent member of the first Military Medical Committee. He is one of the founders of Serbian Medical Association.
Acknowledgments
For his work, Josif Holec was awarded Order of the Cross of Takovo and numerous other decorations.