Bogdan Bretsel ( Slovenian. Bogdan Brecelj ; June 5, 1906 , Goritsa - September 9, 1986 , Ljubljana ) - Yugoslav surgeon, doctor of medical sciences, professor, colonel of the JNA and Hero of Socialist Labor of Yugoslavia. One of the personal doctors of Josip Broz Tito .
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| Date of Birth | May 6, 1906 | ||||||
| Place of Birth |  Goritsa , Austrian Primorye , Austria-Hungary | ||||||
| Date of death | November 9, 1986 (aged 80) | ||||||
| Place of death |  Ljubljana , SFRY | ||||||
| A country | Yugoslavia | ||||||
| Scientific field | medicine ( surgery , orthopedics ) | ||||||
| Place of work | Ljubljana University | ||||||
| Alma mater | Innsbruck University named after Leopold and Franz | ||||||
| Academic degree | Doctor of Medical Sciences | ||||||
| Academic rank | Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences | ||||||
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Biography
Born on June 5, 1906 in the city of Goritsa in Austria-Hungary (now the city of Gorizia, Italy). The son of a famous doctor Anton Bretsel . The family also had a brother Marian Bretzel , the future head of the Slovak Republic and the People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Bogdan studied at the universities of Vienna and Innsbruck, in 1929 received a doctorate in medical sciences from the University of Innsbruck. Since 1935 he began to engage in surgery in Ljubljana, since 1937 he began to practice orthopedic operations (he trained in Berlin, Bologna, Vienna, Prague and Padua). He headed the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Ljubljana Hospital that same year.
In 1941, Bogdan Bretzel joined the Liberation Front of Slovenia - the political wing of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia , where he headed the medical service. Twice he was arrested by the Italian occupation authorities in 1943, but both times escaped from them (his family was deported from Goritsa by Italian nationalists in 1919 and was forced to settle in Ljubljana ). Having got out on the liberated territory, Bretsel began to work as the chief surgeon of the Yugoslav army and personally worked in the Supreme Headquarters of the NOAU . In 1945, he was appointed regional secretary of the People's Liberation Committee of the Slovene Primorye and Trieste [1] .
On August 31, 1945, Brezel was appointed deputy dean of the University of Ljubljana, and a year later he founded the Department of Clinical Orthopedics at the Faculty of Medicine and began opening orthopedic hospitals in the Slovenian towns of Rovinj , Šempeter pri Gorice and Alkaran , as well as founding rehabilitation institutes: a house for disabled children in Kamnik , Institute for the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities in Ljubljana and the Center for Medical Rehabilitation in Lasko. They were involved in the treatment of osteoarticular tuberculosis. Since 1947, Pretzel has been one of the personal doctors of Josip Broz Tito. In 1948 he opened a school of physiotherapists in Rovinj, and in 1958 he introduced the subject "Fundamentals of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation" into medical schools in Yugoslavia. Under the direction of Bretzel, treatment methods are being developed: joint arthroplasty using prostheses, treatment of osteoarticular tuberculosis with conservative bone transplantation, treatment of hip dislocation with the use of osteosynthetic materials, etc. He also founded the first bone bank in Slovenia and Yugoslavia.
In 1976, Brezel was elected to the Council of the Federation of the SFRY and in the same year received the title of Honorary Professor of the University of Ljubljana. During his life, he has authored over 100 scientific papers published in journals of Yugoslavia and the world, and has also written several books and textbooks on medical care. He did not stop his activities even after retirement: on January 3, 1980, he was the head of the council of doctors involved in the treatment of Josip Broz Tito (unfortunately, the operation led to serious complications from which the Yugoslav president soon died ).
Bogdan Bretzel passed away on November 9, 1986 .
Bibliography
Honors
Rewards
- Order of the Hero of Socialist Labor of Yugoslavia
- Order of the Yugoslav flag with ribbon
- Order of the Republic with a golden wreath
- Golden Star of the Order of Merit for the People
- Order of Labor with the Red Banner
- Partisan Memory Medal of 1941
- Medal of the Anti-Fascist Council of the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia (1968)
- Boris Kidrich Medal (1986)
Ranks
- Director of the Center for the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities in Ljubljana
- Honorary Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Ljubljana
- Permanent Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( December 6, 1949 )
- Corresponding Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1961)
- Corresponding Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1963)
- Foreign Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1963)
- Honorary Citizen of Ljubljana (1984)
- Honorary Member of the Slovenian Association of Medicine
- Honorary Member of the International Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology
- Chairman of the Union of Orthopedists and Traumatologists of the SFRY
- Honorary member of the All-Union Society of Traumatologists and Orthopedists of the USSR (1969)
Notes
- ↑ Group of authors: Titova Last cue ball unopened (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 20, 2015. Archived May 14, 2012.
Literature
In Serbian
- Gospodlosvensky savremenitsy: ko e ko u Gugoslavia . Chronometar, Beograd 1970. Godina.
- War vocabulary . "Military Publishing Factory" Beograd, 1981. year.
In Russian
- Pretzel Bogdan // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- L.A. Stankevich. BRETSEL Bogdan // Big Medical Encyclopedia: In 30 volumes / Editor-in-Chief B.V. Petrovsky . - 3rd edition. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1985.
Links
- Biography on the site of SANU (Serb.)