Andrija Štampar’s diaries nominated for MEMORY OF THE WORLD
Andrija Štampar’s diaries (1931-1938) have been nominated for UNESCO’s MEMORY OF THE WORLD programme at this year’s session of the UNESCO Executive Board.
The Memory of the World Register is a UNESCO programme, established in 1992, with the aim of promoting the preservation of and access to documentary heritage of global importance, in which the Archives of the Dubrovnik Republic have already been included due to the continuity, quantity and value of the materials of the State Archives in Dubrovnik, which hold a total of 75 archival funds from the period of the Dubrovnik Republic (1022-1808).
With the support of the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, the “Andrija Štampar” School of Public Health and the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Croatian State Archives nominated the diaries kept by Andrija Štampar in the period from 1931 to 1938. This is a part of the personal collection of Andrija Štampar stored in the Croatian State Archives, consisting of eight volumes with a total of 891 pages. The diaries are written in Croatian, with the first 24 pages being handwritten, and the rest written on a typewriter. They provide a unique insight into the efforts of Andrija Štampar, who, as a health expert for the League of Nations Health Organization and the Rockefeller Foundation, worked on the promotion and organization of public health in various parts of the world (Europe, the USA, Canada, Russia, the Far East, especially China) and studied and recorded local health practices during the 1930s of the last century.
One of the independent experts – consultants is also Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sc. Martin Kuhar from the Division of History of Medical Sciences, Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
