Др Карло Кико (Karol Kiko, 1813–1869) – један од Словака у српском санитету у 19. веку

Abstract

Dr. Karlo Kiko was one of many doctors from the former Austrian Empire living and working in the Principality of Serbia in the 19th century. He was born in Uhrovec, Slovakia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Hungary – in itself 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 Fellow 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 11 years of his life in Serbia working as a physician of the Knjaževac 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 has lived and died in Serbia. The goals of this paper are to round off Kiko’s biography with his “Serbian period” and to present the personality of a worker in the Serbian health service in the past.

Keywords: Karol Kiko, physician; doctor; Slovakia; Serbian health service