Croatia 1996 "ANNIVERSARIES OF CROATIAN SCIENCE"
| Issue Date | 04.10.1996 |
| ID | Michel: Scott: Stanley Gibbons: Yvert: UPU: N/A Category: pR |
| Author | Nevenka Arbanas |
| Stamps in set | |
| Value | HRK 2,0 - 150th Anniversary of the Birth
of Geologist Gjuro Pilar HRK 2,4 - 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Otolaryngologist Ante Sercer HRK 2,4 - 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Archeologist Frane Bulic |
| Size (width x height) | 35,5 x 29,82 mm |
| Layout | Mini sheet of 12 stamps |
| Products | FDC x1 MS x1 |
| Paper | white 102g, gummed |
| Perforation | 14 |
| Print Technique | Multicolor Offset |
| Printed by | AKD - Hrvatski tiskarski zavod, Zagreb, Savska cesta 31 |
| Quantity | 350.000 each |
| Issuing Authority | Croatian Post Inc |
The stamps are issued in blocks of 12. Croatian Post and Telecommunications sells the First Day Cover FDC and the First Day Sheet.
Gjuro Pilar was born in Slavonski Brod in 1846. After
completing his education at grammar school in Osijek and Zagreb he studied
natural sciences in Brussels, where he also received his doctoral degree at the
age of 22. He published numerous geological scientific papers, quite outstanding
at the time, which have, for decades, served as starting points for further
fundamental and practical reserches of Croatia and western Bosnia. He was
engaged in many geological disciplines: paleontology, mineralogy, petrology,
coal deposits, geodynamics, hydrogeology of Karst. He was also engaged in
studies regarding mining, mining law, geodesy, astronomy, meteorology and
archeology. He also participated in the founding of the Croatian national
science association, the Croatia mountaineering association and, in 1885/6,
together with some friends, he founded and registered the first chess club in
Zagreb; he also organized a "trial tournament", the first modern Croatian chess
tournament based on the model of European chess contests.
Ante Sercer was born in Slavonska Pozega in 1896. He
attended grammar school in Dubrovnik and completed his medical studies in Graz
and Prague. He specialized otolaryngology in Zagreb and later in Prague and
Vienna. He started working at the Otolaryngologic clinical hospital of the
Medical faculty in Zagreb in 1920. Later he became its administrator and soon
also associate professor. In 1946. he became head of the department of the
otolaryngological department of the Sisters of Mercy Hospital. Owing to his
reputation the department was given the status of the otolaryngological clinical
hospital of the Medical faculty in 1964. Sercer published 170 scientific papers,
among which outstanding places belong to his works in the field of
otolaryngological propaedeutics and clinical treatment, plastic surgery of the
nose and ear, oral surgery and tonsilar problems. He experimentally tested and
proved that the nose is not simply a passive tube serving for the passage of
air, but an active and complex respiratory organ. His method of presenting the
infrastructure of the nose through decortication attracted great attention
abroad. He was among the first in Europe to treat otosclerosis by surgery and he
also worked out a special theory about the etiopathogenesis of this
illness.
Frane Bulic was born in Vranjic near
Split in 1846. He studied theology in Zadar, was ordained as priest in 1869 and
in the same year started the study of classical philology and slavonic studies
in Vienna. Afterwards he also studied classical archeology. He actively worked
as a researcher, preservationist and writer of numerous scientific and expert
works. He acquired his scientific experience on the archeological sites in
Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and Syria, working together with the eminent European
archaeologists of that time. He undertook a research of ancient and
Old-Christian monuments of ancient Salona and discovered several hundreds of
epigraphs as well as the Old-Christian graveyard in Vranjic. In 1891 he
discovered a stone with an inscription of Prince Trpimir in Rizinice near Solin,
and later also discovered the ruins of the monastery and church of the
Benedictines whom Trpimir invited to Croatia. In Bijaci near Trogir he founded
the foundations of Trpimir's church that was dedicated to St Martha and then in
Majdan near Solin he founded the graveyard dating from the times of the Croatian
national dynasty. Of particular importance is his research on the island on the
river in Solin, Otok, where he discovered the sarcophagus of the Croatian queen
Jelena from the year
976.
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