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.