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1989 Died Zdenko Njemirovskij, Croatian dentist (Nova Gradiška, February 17, 1911 - Zagreb, December 8, 1989). He completed his medical studies in Zagreb, then specialized in odontostomatology in Prague. After the founding of the Zagreb Faculty of Dentistry (1962), he became the first head of its Department of Dental Pathology and held this position until his retirement in 1981. He was the first teacher of pediatric and preventive dentistry at the newly established faculty, and a full professor of dental pathology since 1963. He was the vice-dean of the Faculty of Dentistry in Zagreb and the head of the Dental Section of the Croatian Medical Association. He founded dental pathology in Croatia, within which he especially developed endodontics. He has published more than 100 scientific and professional papers. He was the initiator and editor-in-chief of the journal Acta stomatologica Croatica and the author of several textbooks: Endodontics (1969), Endodontics: Pathology and Therapy of Dental Pulp (1979) and others.