Slavko Hirsch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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physician
Date of Birth: 29-Mar-1893
Place of Birth: Glina, Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: physician
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Slavko Hirsch
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- Slavko Hirsch (29 March 1893 – 1942) was a Croatian physician, founder and director of the Epidemiological Institute in Osijek.Hirsch was born on 29 March 1893 in Glina, Croatia to a Jewish family of Bertold and Josefina Hirsch.
- After high school education Hirsch studied medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, Innsbruck Medical University and University of Prague.
- During World War I, as a student, he was recruited and mobilized in the Austro-Hungarian Army.
- He was stationed in the village Bršadin, near Vukovar in the Vukovar-Syrmia County.
- During the war Hirsch gained extensive experience in the field of venerology and other communicable diseases.
- In 1919 he finished specialization at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin, where he studied epidemiology of bacterial meningitis.
- In 1923 Hirsch was appointed as head of the newly founded Community health center Osijek and head of the infectious diseases department at the Osijek Hospital.
- Hirsch was also named, in 1924, director of the Epidemiological Institute Osijek which he founded.
- His great merit was in combating infectious diseases, not only in the Osijek area but also in the wider Slavonia region.
- During World War II physician Miroslav Schlesinger organized the departure of the Croatian Jewish doctors to Bosnia to combat endemic syphilis in 1941.
- 80 Jewish doctors were sent to Bosnia by Independent State of Croatia authorities, as a Jew among them was Hirsch.
- Most of those doctors would later flee to join the Partisans.
- Hirsch was married to Josefine (née Roubitschek), with whom he had a daughter Ruth.
- In 1942 Hirsch was deported from Derventa to Jasenovac concentration camp where he was killed together with his wife, daughter, granddaughter and sister.
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