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1990 Fedja Fischer-Sartorius, Croatian physician, pediatrician, died (Sielec, Poland; today Ukraine, March 4, 1901 – Geneva, September 12, 1990). Educated in Germany, she completed her medical studies in Hamburg in 1923, and her specialization in pediatrics in 1931 in Münster, where she remained to work as a university assistant. In 1937 he came to Zagreb and worked in the City Children's Clinic. Since 1940, she has been the manager of the school polyclinic in Koprivnica, where she also founded an outpatient clinic with a wide range of health education activities. In the partisans from 1943 to 1945, she was a doctor and health officer, and after the Second World War she worked in Zagreb, first in 1945-46. at the Children's Department of the Foundation Hospital in Rebro, and then 1946-48. at the Children’s Department of Merciful Sisters Hospital. In 1948-49. she was the head of the Directorate for the Protection of Mothers and Children of the Committee for Public Health of the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and then 1949-50. Head of the Department for the Protection of Mothers and Children of the People's Republic of Croatia. In 1951, she founded the Children's Hospital in Klaićeva Street in Zagreb, where she organized Center for the Protection of Mothers and Children with the help of UNICEF in 1953-56.; she ran both institutions until her retirement in 1964. The center conducts health education for parents and organizes courses for midwives, postgraduate courses for doctors, and a three-year school for child nurses. In 1959, she habilitated as an assistant professor at the School of Medicine in Zagreb, so she participated in postgraduate classes. She was the president of UNICEF for Croatia (1949-1964). In 1956, she started the first Croatian pediatric journal, the Bulletin of the Center for the Protection of Mother and Child, and was its long-term editor. She developed social pediatrics, organized field teams to combat neonatal morbidity and mortality, as well as the children’s community. She has published her works in numerous journals. Works: Caring for a healthy and sick child. Handbook for Nurses, Zagreb, 1952; Care and nutrition of newborns and young children. Handbook for Teacher School Students, Zagreb, 1956.