MILOSLAVIC, EDUARD

Forensic Medicine

(1884-1952) was a descendant of Dubrovnik emmigrants to the USA, born in Oakland, California. His family returned to Dubrovnik in 1889. Eduard studied medicine in Vienna, where he became a professor of pathology. In 1920 an invitation came from the Marquette University in Wisconsin, USA, to take the chair of the full professor of pathology, bacteriology and forensic medicine. In subsequent years "Doc Milo", as colleagues called him, inaugurated criminal pathology in the USA. As an outstanding specialist he was also involved in investigations of crimes perpetrated by

Al Capone gang. He was one of the founders of the International Academy for Forensic Medicine, member of many American and European scientific societies and academies. He was active in the Croatian Fraternal Union and also vice president of the CFU in the USA. In 1932 he moved to Zagreb, where he was a full professor at the Faculty of medicine. He was lecturing also pastoral medicine at the Faculty of Theology in Zagreb, and was known as ardent adversary of abortion and euthanasia. In 1940 he was elected member of the prestigeous "Medico-Legal Society" in London in 1941 and promoted the full member of the Tzarist Leopoldine Carolingue Academy of Natural Sciences in Germany, and doctor "honoris causa" at the University of Vienna, where he started his scientific career. He again moved to the USA (St. Louis, Missouri), where he was working until his death.