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Fran Kušan and the first university botanical garden of medicinal and poisonous plants in Southeast Europe

The aim of this study is to investigate the role of Fran Kušan (Vučja Luka, 1902 – Zagreb, 1972), a Croatian botanist and university professor of pharmaceutical botany, played in the establishment of the Botanical Garden of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the University of Zagreb, Croatia. This was the first specialised pharmaceutical botanical garden for the cultivation of medicinal and poisonous plants in Southeast Europe. The garden was organised and founded by Fran Kušan in 1946 at the Faculty of Pharmacy (today the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemisty), University of Zagreb, and since 1969 it has been statutorily protected as a monument of garden architecture. After KUŠAN'S death in 1972, the garden was named after him. Fran KUŠAN received his PhD in botany at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (1928). He was appointed associate professor (1940), and later full professor of pharmaceutical botany (1942) and Head of Department of Pharmaceutical Botany (1945) at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Zagreb. Inspired by mountain botanical gardens in Europe, Kušan established and designed the first two mountain botanical gardens in Croatia, the botanical garden on Medvednica mountain above Zagreb, founded in 1937, and the Velebit Botanical Garden, established in 1967 on the northern part of the Velebit mountain.

Fran Kušan ; Croatian botanist ; botanical garden ; medicinal and poisonous plants ; history of botany

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