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Croatian scholar (1888 - 1958)

Andrija Štampar (1 September 1888 – 26 June 1958^[1]) was a distinguished scholar in the field of social medicine from Croatia.

Education

Štampar was born 1 September 1888 in Brodski Drenovac^[1] (part of Pleternica), at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in modern Požega-Slavonia County. From 1898 to 1906, he attended grammar school in Vinkovci.

Andrija stampar biography examples

During his secondary schooling, Štampar was a brilliant pupil and, at that time, he wrote his first literary attempt, published in the periodical Pobratim in 1902. He enrolled at the medical school in Vienna in 1906, which was at the time the most important medical center in the world.

As a medical student, he initiated the editing of medical papers and wrote pamphlets and articles with the intention of educating people in health matters. In 1909 in Nova Gradiška he started publishing the series called Public Health Library discussing numerous topics