Zdenko Škrabalo

Zdenko Škrabalo (born August 4, 1929 in Sombor ; † January 12, 2014 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav or Croatian doctor, politician and diplomat. In 1992/93 he was Croatia's Foreign Minister.

Life

He completed his medical studies at the University of Zagreb in 1953 and specialized in internal medicine , and received his doctorate in Zagreb in 1962 . In 1962/63 he received a Humboldt Fellowship at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf with Arthur Jores and Henryk Nowakowski in the field of endocrinology and especially diabetology . From 1965 he was an assistant at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zagreb, where he completed his habilitation in 1967 , became associate professor in 1974 and full professor in 1976. He also served as an advisor to the World Health Organization on Diabetes Mellitus . In 1992 he was elected a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

In 1992/93 he was Croatia's Foreign Minister . His successor as Foreign Minister Mate Granić was previously Deputy Škrabalos as Director of the Vuk Vrhovac Institute for Diabetes and Endocrinology at the University of Zagreb. From 1993 to 1995 Zdenko Škrabalo was Croatian ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein and from 1996 to 2000 in Hungary .

Works

• Citološka i citokemijska ispitivanja štitnjače = Cytological and cytochemical studies of the thyroid , 1972
• with Mate Granić and others: Racionalna dijagnostika i terapija šećerne bolesti (Rational Diagnostics and Therapy of Diabetes ), 1987
• (as editor): Prilozi za povijest dijabetologije i endokrinologije u Hrvatskoj (Contributions to the history of diabetology and endocrinology in Croatia), 1999, ISBN 953-167-120-6

Web links

• Short biography on the HAZU homepage (Croatian)
• Obituary , Večernji list Online, January 12, 2014 (Croatian)