Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo 2018 Volume 146, Issue 3-4, Pages: 231-238
https://doi.org/10.2298/SARH170911178J
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Dr Karlo Kiko (Karol Kiko, 1813-1869) - One of the Slovaks in the Serbian health service in the 19th century
Jovanović-Simić Jelena (Muzej nauke i tehnike, Beograd)
Dr. Karlo Kiko was one of the many doctors from the former Austrian empire
living and working in the Principality of Serbia in the 19th century. He was
born in Uhrovec, in Slovakia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Hungary -
the part of the Austrian Empire. Kiko was promoted to the Doctor of Medicine
in Pest in 1845. In his youth, he dealt with alternative ways of healing, he
explored medicinal herbs and mineral waters and published several expert
papers. He was a regular member of the Royal Hungarian Natural Science
Society. As a physician in the troupe of General Mor Percel, he participated
in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848/49. Kiko spent the last eleven years in
Serbia working as a physician of the Knjazevac County, as a doctor of the
Belgrade municipality and a military doctor - a surgeon of the Military
Hospital in Belgrade. Although he is considered a respectable person in the
Region of Trenin, from which he emerged, in Slovakia it is not known that he
have lived and died in Serbia. The goals of this paper are to round Kiko's
biography with "Serbian period" and to present the personality of a worker in
the Serbian health service in the past.
Keywords: physician, doctor, Slovakia, Serbian health service