Medicinska fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani 1919–1945 - Univerza v ...
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the gymnasium professor Josip Reisner, also as a part-time teacher,<br />
at the First State Gymnasium� In the second semester, all lectures<br />
in medical subjects were held in a small provisional lecture hall<br />
of the anatomical institute where dissection practicals also took<br />
place in the afternoon in two groups lead by Professor Plečnik�<br />
Physics, chemistry and biology lectures were organised as in the<br />
first semester� The faculty’s teaching staff was joined in the summer<br />
semester by Dr Marij Rebek, who conducted chemistry practicals<br />
as a part-time assistant until the winter semester of 1921� In view<br />
of the unfavourable spatial situation, the faculty posted only 50<br />
student places for the first academic year, but later raised the<br />
number due to the difficult social situation of students forced to<br />
study abroad and enrolled 69 students in the first semester, six<br />
of them female� For the same reasons the faculty only accepted<br />
such students to the second semester who had previously enrolled<br />
in the first semester� Dean Šerko wrote in his first report at the<br />
end of the first academic year that the lectures were held regularly,<br />
the students arrived on time and almost always in full number,<br />
showing a great enthusiasm for the lectures and a good understanding<br />
of the subject matter taught�<br />
Development of the Faculty of Medicine in<br />
the First Decade<br />
It was still necessary to also organise institutes for physiology<br />
and histology with embriology for the second academic year�<br />
In August 1920, the faculty employed Dr Evgen Kansky, who<br />
started lectures in human physiology that same autumn� He<br />
was appointed assistant for biochemistry and assistant professor<br />
of physiology in June 1921, elected as associate professor in<br />
January 1923 and full professor in March 1930� His arrival meant<br />
the beginning of the founding of a physiological institute� In<br />
September 1923, Dr Albin Seliškar took up his post as assistant at<br />
the physiological institute and in 1927 he was elected as assistant<br />
professor of physiology� His work initially consisted of organising<br />
and conducting practical lessons in experimental physiology and<br />
physiological chemistry, and later also introductory lectures to<br />
the practical lessons, a seminar and then special lectures in sensory<br />
and nervous system physiology and occupational physiology�<br />
In December 1920, the Faculty Council selected Dr Zdenko<br />
Frankenberger, assistant professor at the Czech medical faculty,<br />
as full professor of histology and embriology, who after a year<br />
of teaching left the faculty, which could not offer him normal<br />
conditions for instruction and scientific work, and returned to<br />
Prague� With the winter semester 1923, his histology class and<br />
direction of the histological institute was taken over by Dr Alija<br />
Košir, who took up the duties of demonstrator at the Faculty of<br />
Medicine in 1920, was appointed assistant in June the same year<br />
and assistant professor of anatomy in 1923�<br />
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Professor Reisner taught until the summer semester 1921, after<br />
which his lectures in physics were taken over by Julij Nardin<br />
as a part-time teacher, otherwise a professor at the Technical<br />
Secondary School in Ljubljana, who kept this position until 1949�<br />
His lectures were first held at the First State Gymnasium and later<br />
in the physical institute’s lecture hall at the University� Analytical<br />
chemistry practicals for medical students were conducted by the<br />
Russian part-time lecturer Vasilij Isajevič until 1928� Biology was<br />
taught by Dr Pavel Grošelj from 1920, when he was appointed<br />
as lecturer, until his death in 1940� In 1923, he was appointed<br />
assistant professor of general biology and head of the biological<br />
institute�<br />
Facilities of the Faculty of Medicine in<br />
Ljubljana<br />
The physiological and histological institutes were located on<br />
the floor added to the Pathological Department building� The<br />
Physical Institute was given two rooms where practicals took<br />
place and, in the basement, a chemical laboratory, experimental<br />
physiology laboratory, library room and dark room for optical<br />
apparatus� Animals were housed in the basement and a small shed<br />
on the hospital grounds� On the roof, a hut for work with foul<br />
gases was built� When founded in 1920, the Histological Institute<br />
operated on the first floor of the Pathological Department, in one<br />
room which was both a laboratory and the room of the head of<br />
the institute� Practical lessons were carried out in the corridor of<br />
the building�<br />
In the spring of 1920, the ambition was to build new anatomical<br />
institute premises according to the architect Vurnik’s plans -<br />
behind the Pathological Department building on Zaloška Road�<br />
The work did not take place as planned due to a lack of funding�<br />
The funds for university buildings had been crossed off the budget<br />
for the second academic year by the ministry� With subsequently<br />
approved earmarked budgetary resources and funds which the<br />
Deans’ Office managed to get from provincial resources with the<br />
help of the provincial deputy at the time, Dr Leonid Pitamec,<br />
the new building was more or less put under the roof by spring<br />
1921� In the third academic year, work on the building came<br />
to a complete standstill due to a lack of funding� In June 1922,<br />
the Jutro newspaper published a request from the Faculty of<br />
Medicine addressed to the general Slovenian public for financial<br />
help to complete the new building� With the help of donations,<br />
the building was completed to the point of allowing occupation<br />
in 1925�<br />
Until the 1922/23 academic year, five rooms and a corridor were<br />
available to the faculty at the General State Hospital’s Pathological<br />
Department, which they shared� During that year, the Ministry