Pharmacy student Josip Silobrčić’s index, University of Graz, 1910, HMMF-5849

Josip Silobrčić

Josip Silobrčić, Croatian pharmacist (Knin, January 24, 1890 – Zagreb, February 6, 1976), studied pharmacy in Graz from October 15, 1910, and passed the first rigorous pharmaceutical exam in Zagreb on July 2, 1912. (the certificate was signed by Dragutin Reichwein). After completing his studies, he was in the Austro-Hungarian military medical service from 1913 to 1918. He then ran a pharmacy in Biograd na moru. He was the People’s Representative of the Croatian Peasant Party for the district of Biograd na moru, and because of his political involvement and the spread of Radić’s ideas, he was persecuted, imprisoned and tortured after 1928. He had to lease the pharmacy for a while, and only in June 1936 was he allowed to return to Biograd. With his wife Marija, he raised six children – four sons and two daughters, Marija and Sonja. His sons received an academic education: Ivo became a surgeon, Marin a pharmacist, Fedor an orthopedist, Vlatko an immunologist, today a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.