Zdenko Å krabalo

Zdenko Skrabalo (* August 4, 1929 in Sombor, † January 12, 2014 in Zagreb) was a Yugoslav and Croatian physician, politician and diplomat. 1992/93 he was Foreign Minister of Croatia.

Life

He completed his medical studies in 1953 at the University of Zagreb from and specialized in the field of internal medicine, 1962, he received his doctorate in Zagreb. 1962/63 he was able to continue their education as a Humboldt Fellow at the University Hospital Hamburg -Eppendorf, with Arthur Jores and Henryk Nowakowski in the field of endocrinology and diabetology specifically. From 1965 he was assistant professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zagreb, where he habilitated in 1967, 1974 and 1976 associate professor was. He also worked as a consultant to the World Health Organization for diabetes mellitus. He was elected a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1992.

1992/93 he was Foreign Minister of Croatia. His successor as Foreign Minister Mate Granić had previously been deputy Škrabalos as director of Vuk Vrhovac Institute for Diabetes and Endocrinology at the University of Zagreb. 1993-1995 was Zdenko Skrabalo Croatian Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as well as from 1996 to 2000 in Hungary.

Works

• Citološka i citokemijska ispitivanja štitnjače = Cytological and cytochemical studies of the thyroid, 1972
• With Mate Granić include: Racionalna dijagnostika i terapija šećerne bolesti ( Rational diagnosis and treatment 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 9531671206