1. Dr Sondermajer is considered the founder of Serbian war surgery.
15 Facts About Roman Sondermajer
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Roman Sondermajer was born in Czernowitz, capital of the Duchy of Bukovina, Austrian Empire, a son of Franciszek Sondermeier, native of Bavaria, and a Polish mother.
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Roman Sondermajer finished high school in Lviv and received his medical degree in 1884, from the Polish Jagiellonian University in Krakow, specializing in surgery.
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In 1889, recommended by Dr Mikulicz-Radecki, and at the invitation of Serbia's Chief of Medical Staff, Colonel Dr Mihailo Markovic, Dr Roman Sondermajer left Krakow for Serbia.
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Roman Sondermajer was immediately assigned to the Army Medical Service with the rank of captain, his first duty was to set up a Surgical Department at Belgrade Military Hospital.
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Dr Roman Sondermajer initiated the construction of a new military hospital in Vracar, the works started in 1903, he personally oversaw and controlled the construction.
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On 17 October 1912 the First Balkan War started when Serbia and Greece declared war on the Ottoman Empire after Bulgaria and Montenegro, Dr Roman Sondermajer is appointed Chief of the Medical Service of the Ministry of War.
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Well aware of the importance of sanitation in maintaining combat effectiveness, Dr Roman Sondermajer issued strict orders regarding the matter.
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Dr Roman Sondermajer was appointed Chief Surgeon to the Supreme Command.
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Dr Roman Sondermajer established a large field hospital using army barracks to care for the sick and wounded, it was located near Kragujevac.
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Dr Roman Sondermajer was appointed Inspector General of Operations, in that position he had to inspect the military medical institutions, combating typhus was the priority, physicians, medics, nurses, soldiers, and civilians all were affected.
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In 1916, after the dismissal of Dr Lazar Gencic, Dr Roman Sondermajer became Chief of Medical Staff of the Serbian army.
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Dr Roman Sondermajer personally chose a site for the field hospital, it was on the shore of Lake Ostrovo.
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Dr Roman Sondermajer died in Belgrade, on 30 January 1923 at the age of 62.
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Stanislava Roman Sondermajer was a member of the Circle of Serbian Sisters, a humane society of volunteer nurses, following the Austro-Hungarian attack on Serbia, the Circle of Serbian Sisters relocated from Belgrade to the wartime capital Nis, where its members worked in the town's hospital, collecting money and clothes for the wounded.