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Education of first Croatian pharmacognosists at the University of Graz

The text presents the foundation of Croatian scientific pharmacognosy through achievements of Julije Domac (1853-1928), the founder of the first independent pharmacognosy institute in the world (1896), and his assistant Antun Vrgoč (1881-1949) who succeeded him and who was the first dean of the independent Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Zagreb (1942-1945). J. Domac graduated pharmacy in Vienna (1874) and received his Ph.D. from the University of Graz (1880). At the University of Zagreb he was an associate professor (1896) and a full professor of pharmacognosy (1899-1924). He wrote the first Croatian university pharmacognosy textbook Instructions in Pharmacognosy (1899). He coauthored the first original Croatian Pharmacopoeia from 1901. A. Vrgoč graduated in chemistry (1904) from the University of Zagreb and in the same year he went to study pharmacognosy at the University of Graz (1904/05). He received his Ph.D. in Zagreb (1910). As an assistant of J. Domac, he went on to specialize to the world-renowned Prof. A. Tschirch in Berne (1912-1914). After six years of captivity in World War I (1914-1920) he inherited J. Domac as an associate professor of pharmacognosy and head of the Pharmacognosy Institute (1924) and then as a full professor (1925). He published Instructions in Pharmacognosy (1931), modernized the Croatian textbook of Pharmacognosy and wrote the pharmacognostic part of the first edition of the Yugoslav Pharmacopoeia (1933).

Julije Domac; Antun Vrgoč; Croatian pharmacognosy

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