Feodor Lukač

Doctor, university professor, athlete, sports pioneer, medical and sports writer. Lukač is one of most intriguing and unique professionals to grace Bosnia & Herzegovina. From his birth town of Foča he would go on to study medicine in Vienna and Bern. Along the way he did incredible things: introduced football to Sarajevo in 1909, he won numerous athletics competitions in Austria and Switzerland, founded the Yugoslav Athletics Federation. He managed the surgical department of the State Hospital in Mostar (1923-1941), performing over 35,000 operations. He was the main surgeon in Sarajevo’s military hospital and also one of the founders of the the Faculty of Medicine where was a professor. His life is story for all ages.