Review article
https://doi.org/10.31953/sz.48.1.14
DR FRANJO KRMPOTIĆ – A SIGNIFICANT NAME OF THE TOWN OF SENJ AND CROATIAN MEDICINE
Maja Šojat-Bikić
Abstract
Amongst the significant personalities who were born, educated and spent their youth in the town of Senj, it is undoubtedly worth mentioning the chief doctor, assistant professor, Franjo Krmpotić Ph.D, a specialist in gynaecology and obstetrics, an excellent clinician and pedagogue, a man of impressive professional and scientific achievements, a true intellectual of wide interests and an amazing memory, and above all a patriot. Although he spent most of his working life in Rijeka, he remained connected to his hometown and the local community for the rest of his life. Franjo Krmpotić was born in Senj on 5th July 1929. He finished primary school and secondary school in his hometown. He enrolled at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zagreb in 1948 and graduated in 1955. As a trainee doctor, he was assigned to work at the Braća dr. Sobol General Hospital in Rijeka (1957-1958). He then worked for two years at the Public Health Centre in Senj. From 1964, until his retirement in 1994, he worked as a specialist at the Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics of the Braća dr. Sobol General Hospital in Rijeka (today the Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka). He was a Homeland War volunteer at the Gospić General Hospital and in 1995 he was awarded the Homeland War Memorial Medal. As a longstanding member of the Senj Museum Association and the Senj Secondary School Graduates Club, he made a significant contribution to the life of the local community. He died on 4th December 2020 in Rijeka. This work, based primarily on the research of the original material from the personal archive of Dr Franjo Krmpotić, attempts to reconstruct his purposeful and fruitful life. Attached are the bibliography of his works and the list of his participation at congresses and meetings.
Keywords
Franjo Krmpotić; physician; Senj; Rijeka; history of medicine
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265117
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Publication date:
15.11.2021.
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