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Lijec̆nic̆ki vjesnik · Sep 2008
Biography Historical Article[Zvonimir Susić--doyen of Croatian neuropsychiatry in the 20th century].
There are three distinct phases in the life of Zvonimir Susić--neurologist, psychiatrist, forensic expert, educator, teacher, translator, and erudite of general and professional knowledge--Zagreb, Rijeka and Zadar phase. In Zagreb (1926-1946) he was promoted to physician (1932), there he was a student tutor, then the assistant at the Physiology Institute of the Medical Faculty; volunteer, hospital doctor (he got the specialization in 1938), assistant and head doctor of the Hospital for Mental Diseases in Vrapce, and the assistant professor (1941) at the Neuropsychiatric Department of the Zagreb University. In Rijeka (1947-1959) he reorganized Psychiatric and established the Neurology Department of the General Hospital "Brothers Dr. ⋯ He was frequent and imaginative lecturer in various sections in Croatian Medical Association and other public institutions. As a gifted polyglot he was occupied by the translation work when retired. In our, till then Middle-European culture-oriented medical area, he introduced values and patterns of French neurological and German neuropathological schools.