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Dr. Sava Janković

"Head of the Department of Radiotherapy at the General State Hospital; published works on diagnostics and radiotherapy, collaborator for 'SVEZNANJE' - 'Sveznanje' p. 898.
He was born in Vranjevo on September 6, 1887. He graduated from high school in Novi Sad in 1906. He studied medicine in Budapest and completed it in 1912 as a Tekelianum scholar. He specialized in radiology, was a private docent, and the head of the radiology department at the General State Hospital in Belgrade. He died in Belgrade in 1842 of cancer. In 1912, he served his state military service in Boka Kotorska and as soon as the Balkan War broke out, he immediately went to Montenegro, where he served voluntarily until the end of the war, after which he went to Paris for specialization in radiology.

Before World War I, while he was in Paris, he received an invitation from King Nikola with an offer to be a doctor in Cetinje, which he accepted. He came to Cetinje and stayed there until the capitulation of Montenegro. Then he crossed Albania to Italy, and from there to Switzerland, where he worked with the famous Sali (Sahli), and then went to Paris, from where after two years of specialization in radiology he came to Belgrade, where he was appointed head of the Radiology Department at the General State Hospital.
Dr. Sava was a strong erudition and an art lover. His father, now 91 years old (in 1947), Orestije Janković - LM, lives in Vranjevo. Statement by Dr. Kosta Kurteš, psychiatrist in Belgrade.

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