© 2006 American Public Health Association DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.090084
Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Correspondence: Reprint requests should be sent to Theodore M. Brown, PhD, History Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail: theodore_brown@urmc.rochester.edu).
ANDRIJA STAMPAR, ONE OF the most charismatic and beloved figures in 20th century public health, was born in the village of Drenovac, Croatia, on September 1, 1888. His father was a schoolteacher who, because of his liberal views, had to move frequently to escape the consequences of his political convictions.1 Young Andrija absorbed his fathers values and, though a brilliant student, sometimes came into conflict with his teachers when he asserted his right to be a "free thinker."2 After graduating from gymnasium in 1906, he enrolled at the University of Vienna Medical School. There he was attracted to Ludwig Telekys
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