Bogdan Zimonjić

Medical doctor, internist and one of the founders of the medical faculty in Sarajevo. He studied medicine at the Medical Faculties in Vienna and Prague before returning to his hometown of Sarajevo. He founded the clinic where he worked and founded the first medical journal in the country. In 1923 he became the first to record an electrocardiogram in BiH. It is said that while he was dying, he invited his students to see what a dying heart looks like. After his death a scholarship bearing his name was set up and his wealth was left to setup a scholarship fund and awards bearing his name were given annually until 1992.