Savo Zlatić
Savo Vjerko Zlatić (12 July 1912 – 8 December 2007[1]) was a Croatian physician, politician and chess composer.
Early in life, as a medical student, Zlatić became a high-ranking member of the then-illegal Communist Party. In World War II, he became the first
Early life
Zlatić was born in 1912 in Lanišće, a village in Istria, Croatia, into a Catholic family. His parents were teachers. After the Italian occupation of Istria in 1918, the family lived as refugees in Trieste and Slovenia, finally settling in Zagreb in 1921.[5]
In 1932, as a medical student, Zlatić joined the movement against the
For his illegal political activities, in April 1935 Zlatić was arrested and tortured by the police. He was tried before the Court for the Protection of the State and sent to
World War II
In August 1941, after the establishment of the Axis-aligned Independent State of Croatia, by Party decision Zlatić was sent to the Kordun region to help provide medical care to Partisan troops. The medical field work proved to be very risky, as it involved hours of traveling on foot to reach the wounded, crossing guarded roads and railway tracks in the process. This led to a decision to build an improvised hospital in the Partisan-controlled area of Petrova Gora mountain. The hospital, co-founded by Zlatić, became operative in October 1941. After it was discovered and destroyed by enemy forces, it was rebuilt in a different location on Petrova Gora. The new hospital remained undetected for the duration of the war, treating more than 5,000 patients. Apart from general medical work in the hospital, Zlatić also performed minor surgery.[8][9]
Zlatić's Kordun assignment ended in late 1943, when he became a member of the
Goli Otok imprisonment and later life
In 1946 Zlatić became a Yugoslav envoy to
In 1951 Zlatić was released, having signed a public statement in which he denounced his views. He became an advisor in the Ministry of Health and, later, the head of the Ministry's newly established Medical Equipment and Drugs Department. He was instrumental in advancing the country's production, testing and procurement of modern
Zlatić's most important contributions were in the field of clinical pharmacology. He was an editor-in-chief of Pharmaca, a Yugoslav pharmaceutical journal established in 1965, and one of the creators of the Yugoslav Classification of Drugs, a work that predated the World Health Organization's Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System.[13]
Like many other former political prisoners, Zlatić was monitored by
Chess composition
Although Zlatić was a successful amateur
References
- ^ "Savo Zlatić". database.wfcc.ch. World Federation for Chess Composition. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ^ Stipančević 2004, p. 1.
- ^ a b "Partizanski liječnik na Petrovoj gori, robijaš na Golom otoku i vrhunski znanstvenik". Novi list (in Croatian). 14 December 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ^ Stipančević 2004, p. 10.
- ^ Stipančević 2004, p. 2.
- ^ Stipančević 2004, pp. 2–3.
- ^ Stipančević 2004, pp. 3–5.
- ^ Stipančević 2004, pp. 5–6.
- ^ Prosvjeta. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- ^ Stipančević 2004, p. 6.
- ^ Stipančević 2004, pp. 7–9.
- ^ Stipančević 2004, pp. 9–10.
- ^ Stipančević 2004, pp. 10–11.
- ^ Previšić 2014, pp. 292–294.
- ^ a b Stipančević 2004, p. 11.
- ^ "International judges". wfcc.ch. World Federation for Chess Composition. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- ^ "Honorary masters of chess composition". wfcc.ch. World Federation for Chess Composition. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
Sources
- Previšić, Martin (2014). Povijest informbiroovskog logora na Golom otoku 1949. –1956 [History of the Goli Otok Cominformist Prison Camp 1949. – 1956.] (PDF) (in Croatian). Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- Stipančević, Mario (April 2004). "Razgovor s dr. Savom Zlatićem" [Interview with Savo Zlatić, M.D.] (PDF). Arhivski Vjesnik (in Croatian). 47 (1). Zagreb: Croatian State Archives: 119–132. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
Further reading
- Zlatić, Savo (1971). "Uz stranice partizanskog dnevnika godine 1941-1942.". In Zatezalo, Đuro (ed.). Prva godina narodnooslobodilačkog rata na području: Karlovca, Korduna, Gline, Like, Gorskog Kotara, Pokuplja i Žumberka (in Croatian). Karlovac: Historijski arhiv.
- Zlatić, Savo (2005). Poslali su me na Kordun [I Was Sent to Kordun] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Razlog. ISBN 953-6985-07-1.