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]He was the Chief of the Chief of the Military Medical Academy of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1882 to 1884.
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 held the position of a physician in the Internal Department of the Belgrade Military Hospital, and then as the manager of the Central Military Hospital in Belgrade from 1873. One of his many duties was to prepare laws and regulations pertaining to the military medical corps at a future time of war with his collaborator-physicians Lazar Dokić and Filip Tajšić.[3]Later, he was part of the medical team of Dr. Stefan Nedok, a Medical Corps Major and the first head of the Internal Department of the Belgrade Military Hospital and the head of Medical Services of Division and Corps in war with Turkey (1876 and 1877-1978).[4]
He took part in Serbian-Turkish Wars of 1876 to 1878 and again in the Serbian-Bulgarian War in 1885, performing important duties as head of the medical corps of the Drina Division under the command of General Milutin Jovanović.[5]
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 the Serbian Medical Society.
Acknowledgments
For his work, Josif Holec was awarded Order of the Cross of Takovo and numerous other decorations.
References
- ^ Управници Војне болници од 1844–1930, У: ВОЈНОМЕДИЦИНСКА АКАДЕМИЈА 170 ГОДИНА. Монографија,, Београд, МЕДИЈА ЦЕНТАР „ОДБРАНА”
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- ^ "Sedam stotina godina medicine u Srba. 700 ans de médecine chez les Serbes". 1971.
- ^ http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0042-8450/2014/0042-84501408792N.pdf
- ^ Gopčević, Spiridion (1886). "Bulgarien und Ostrumelien: Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Zeitraumes von 1878-1886, nebst militärischer Würdigung des serbo-bulgarischen Krieges".