Marco Gerbec - Stritarjeva ulica - Ljubljana - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

A bronze bust statue of Marco Gerbec on the side of the Tourist Information Centre on Stritarjeva ulica. The legend below the bust tells us:
'Marco Gerbec
1658 - 1718
A doctor
who worked in
town hospital
at this point'

"Marko Gerbec (24 October 1658 – 9 March 1718; Latinized: Marcus Gerbezius) was a Carniolan physician and scientist, notable as the founder of modern medicine among the Slovenes and for the first description of Adams–Stokes syndrome (visit link) It was published in 1717 and 44 years after its publication quoted by Giovanni Battista Morgagni.

Marko Gerbec was born in Šentvid pri Sticni (then part of the Duchy of Carniola, now in Slovenia) to the family of a serf. After graduating from the Jesuit college in Ljubljana (Laibach), he studied with the help of a government scholarship—first philosophy in Laibach (now Ljubljana), then medicine in Vienna. Just a few days before the arrival of the Ottoman Army at Vienna in 1683, he left the city for Padua. He finished his studies in 1684 at Bologna. One of his professors there was Marcello Malpighi.

Gerbec was an internationally recognized physician. In 1688, he became a member of the German Academia Cesarea Leopoldina. In 1693, he was among the founders of Academia Operosorum Labacensium in Ljubljana. This was the first scientific academy in the territory of present-day Slovenia. From 1712 to 1713, he was its president. In 1712, he also founded the first scholarly society of physicians and surgeons in Carniola, named the College of Saints Cosmas and Damian (Slovene: bratovšcina sv. Kozma in Damjana). As member of the nobilis forolensis, Gerbec is described on a memorial tablet at Padua."

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