@article{
author = "Bešlin, Milivoj and Milošević, Srđan",
year = "2023",
abstract = "The paper analyses the society of the newly created Kingdom of SCS/
Yugoslavia, which aroused great expectations from various members of the intellectual
elite. Majority of them, educated in the West as the “planned elite”, returned to the
country to help its social development. Nevertheless, the case of the Viennese professor,
the influential European pathologist and oncologist Prof Dr Đorđe Joannović (1871-
1932), although different from others, can be considered paradigmatic. Returning to
the country of his parents and leaving the comfortable life of Viennese scientific circle
Joannović devoted himself to building several medical institutions in Belgrade, from
the Faculty of Medicine to the Institute of Pathology. However, many who, like Dr
Joannović, enthusiastically came to the new country, ready to work and contribute to
its overall development, experienced severe disappointment, and even personal tragedy.
In this context, the fate of the famous doctor and distinguished Viennese professor, the
first Serbian oncologist, one of the world’s pioneers in the study of autoimmune diseases,
the founder of many medical institutions and the world-renowned scientist, is one of
the paradigms of the Yugoslav society. The strong connection with the students and
the support he provided to them, his loyalty to the principles of university autonomy
and his reluctance to put himself at the service of the authoritarian and repressive
government brought him into conflict with the bearers of the state terror of the Sixth of
January regime. From the conflicts and pressures to which he was exposed from the top
of the government, the well-known and recognised European scientist seeked salvation
in suicide.",
publisher = "Naučno društvo za istoriju zdravstvene kulture; Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu.",
journal = "ACTA historiae medicinae, stomatologiae, pharmaciae, medicinae, veterinariae",
title = "The Kingdom of Yugoslavia an the return of the “planned elite“: The case of Professor Dr Đorđe Joannović",
number = "42",
pages = "57-69",
doi = "10.5937/acthist2301057B"
}
