Josip Fleger

Medical doctor, researcher & professor of Dermatovenerology. Born in Sarajevo, he would go on to be recognised as one of the leading dermatovenerologist of Yugoslavia. He graduated medicine from the University if Prague in 1921. In 1925 he becomes the head of Dermatovenerology Department General State Hospital in Sarajevo. In WW2 he led the Institute of Leprosy in Sarajevo. He became at academic in 1949 and besides dermatovenerology, in which he published scientific papers, several books and monographs, he was a botanist. He was contributor to the Yugoslav Medical Encyclopedia. He published the first Yugoslavian textbook on "Skin and sexually transmitted diseases”.