Professional paper

Primarius doctor of medicine Ivo Glavan (1898-1977), founder of the Department of neuropsychiatry in Osijek

Pavo Filaković

Abstract

The paper presents professional and life path of Primarius Doctor of Medicine Ivo Glavan, the founder of the Department of Neuropsychiatry in Osijek. The paper is based on existing references about life and work of this well-known physician from Osijek, as well as review of his professional and scientific papers. The author tended to highlight Primarius Dr. Ivo Glavan as a person, because his personality was very important for establishment, as well as development of the Department of Neuropsychiatry in Osijek. The paper presents information on his heritage, childhood and youth referring to the period in which he had been both psychologically and biologically formed as a person with broad insight, persistence and structure in achieving his goals, ability of having deeper perspective, who was ahead of time. Despite extremely adverse circumstances and with significant personal sacrifice, Primarius Dr. Ivo Glavan was not only the founder of the Department of Neuropsychiatry in Osijek, but neuropsychiatrist of broad culture who contributed to development of profession and medical science thorough his professional and scientific papers in our region. His best known work was a textbook in neurology written in Croatian language called "Živčane bolesti ("Nervous Diseases"). He altruistically propagated professional and scientific thought on local level participating in work of Croatian Medical Association in Osijek.

Keywords

Ivo Glavan; Department of Neuropsychiatry; Osijek

Hrčak ID:

191867

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/191867

Publication date:

1.12.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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