Recipe with memorandum and manuscript of Dr. Avelin Ćepulić
Zagreb, 25. 10. 1929.
inv. no. HMMF-5841

Avelin Ćepulić

Avelin Ćepulić, Croatian physician and cultural and political activist (Bakar, 17 July 1896 — Zagreb, 2 February 1936). Grandson of Avelin, politician and judge. He attended high school in Varaždin and graduated in Zagreb in 1914. He studied medicine in Innsbruck, Graz, Vienna and Prague, where he graduated in 1922. As a private physician, he worked in Zagreb in the internal medicine department of the Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, then as a physician of the “Merkur” health insurance fund and the Boys’ Seminary and as a professor of hygiene at the Archbishop’s Classical Gymnasium. In 1919, he reestablished the Academic Society “Croatia”. He was a supporter of the Party of Rights. He gained public favor with his selfless work as a “doctor without fees”. From 1934 he was the editor of the journal Hrvatska smotra (Croatian Review), where he published the treatises National Idea and Peasant Movement and National Life and Politics. He also edited the Catholic weekly Nedjelja. He was a prominent social and political activist in the Croatian and Catholic movements between the wars.

LIT.: Croatian Biographical Lexicon (1983–2024), online edition. Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute, 2024. <https://hbl.lzmk.hr/clanak/cepulic-avelin-lijecnik>.