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EN: 1907 Tomislav Markuš, Croatian veterinarian, died (Lobor near Zlatar, November 23, 1836 - Zagreb, April 4, 1907). He finished elementary school in Lobor, high school in Varaždin, and graduated from the obstetrics school of the Medical Faculty in Graz in 1858. After that he studied veterinary medicine at the Military Veterinary Institute in Vienna, where he graduated in I863. Immediately after his studies, he became a county veterinarian in Delnice and soon a national veterinarian in Zagreb. From 1870 to 1875 he worked in the state medical service, so as an esteemed expert in 1874 he was elected a full member of the Association of Physicians of Croatia and Slavonia. Until his retirement in 1905, he worked as a very successful veterinarian in the districts of Karlovac and Vojnić, and as a county veterinarian in Zagreb. Markuš is especially credited for the development of veterinary medicine in Croatia and as the initiator of Veterinarski vjesnik, the first such specialized Croatian journal. From 1876 he was also a regular member of the Croatian-Slavonian Economic Society.