Melita Švob

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Melita Švob (born July 17, 1931 in Zagreb , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian biologist and scientist .

Life

Melita Švob's family belonged to the middle class . As a child, she experienced the Second World War , the Holocaust and the NDH regime in Croatia. She survived the horror and turmoil of the World War under a false identity, and she also had to keep hiding during the war years.

After the end of the war, she first received her school education at the partisan high school in Zagreb. She successfully completed regular school , after which she studied biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Zagreb, which she also successfully completed.

Shortly thereafter, she married the biologist Tvrtko Švob . In 1956 she moved from Zagreb to Ljubljana , where she worked in the oncology hospital . After working for four years, she and her husband moved to Sarajevo , where she worked as an assistant in the field of histology and embryology at the Faculty of Medicine .

In 1964 she obtained her doctorate there . From 1964 to 1979, Švob worked at the Institute for Skin and Venereal Diseases . Then she founded the histopathological research laboratory and specialized in this area in 1968/1969 in the USA .

Švob worked on many projects, published books and published specialist literature. In 1977 she moved to Tuzla with her daughter Dubravka . She founded the Medical Faculty of Tuzla University and became a professor of histology and embryology. She returned to Zagreb with her daughter, was a lecturer at the Medical Faculty of Tuzla and in Split in the field of theoretical biology .

From 1979 she worked at the Zagreb Institute for Migration and Folklore until 1999. In addition, from 1979 to 1999 she was President of the Natural Science Council. In 2000 she retired . In the same year she founded the research and documentation center CENDO in the Jewish community of Zagreb . She is President of the Union of Jewish Women of Croatia.

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SURNAME Švob, Melita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian biologist and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , Kingdom of Yugoslavia