Jakša Račić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jakša Račić

Yugoslav politician

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1868

Place of Birth: Stari Grad, Croatia, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia

Date of Death: 23-Aug-1943

Profession: physician, politician

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Jakša Racic (5 August 1868 – 23 August 1943) was the Mayor of Split between February 1929 and June 1933.
An ethnic Croat in modern terms, he was a supporter of King Alexander I's unitarianist policies, and considered himself a Yugoslav and a Dalmatian.
He was a medical doctor by profession and one of the few non-Serbian members of the Chetnik movement.Racic was born on 5 August 1868 in Vrbanj (part of Stari Grad) on the island of Hvar in the Kingdom of Dalmatia and studied in Prague, Graz and Innsbruck, where he attained a doctorate in 1900.
He was employed in Innsbruck as an assistant at the Institute for General and Experimental Pathology, undertook further training in Ljubljana and became Director of his own surgical sanatorium in Split in 1904, the Racic Sanatorium.
He oversaw the start of hospital modernization in the city, and began the forestation of Marjan hill.