[Dr. Hugo Gjankovic (Buzet, 18 September 1893--Dubrovnik, 14 May 1981)]

Prof. dr. Hugo Gjanković is among the most prominent Croatian doctors of this century. He has studied medicine in Austria and has been promoted in Wienna in 1920. First he worked unpaid in Ginecology Clinics in Wienna and then in 1922. he was accepted as assistant doctor at newly established Surgery Clinic of the Medical Faculty University of Zagreb. He worked hard to become respectable surgeon and university teacher. He was an effervescent member of the Croatian Medical Association--lecturing, publishing numerous papers and participating at many congresses in the country and abroad. His compulsory transfer, for political reasons, to the Department of Surgery of the State Hospital in Sarajevo during the Second World Was ment four years-long break in his academic career. Returned to afterwar Zagreb and to the Clinic as assistant professor he continued to improve the operation techniques, to establish the surgeons associations and to lecture for his colleagues, for the medical students and to the general public. He has published several textooks of surgery. Insulted by the measures taken by the Medical Faculty Authorities towards himself, he felt forced to leave Zagreb in 1953. In his 60th he has accepted the position of the Head of the Department of Surgery in the General Hospital in Dubrovnik. Next seven years he has invested in the through reconstruction of that hospital, particularly the Department of Surgery. He has proved helpful to his younger colleagues in their education and academic advancement. There is a lot to be learned from, not only his numerous papers and books, but from his biography, too.