Šimun Debelić (26 January 1902 – May 1945) was a Croatian veterinarian and professor at the
University of Zagreb.
He was born in
Prkovci
Prkovci is a village in Croatia.
Name
The name of the village in Croatian is plural.
References
Populated places in Vukovar-Syrmia County
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, finished local schooling in 1912, and a gymnasium in
Vinkovci in 1920. He studied to be a veterinarian at the University of Zagreb, graduating in 1926 and achieving a doctorate by 1928. Domestically, he worked in
Skoplje and
Zagreb. He went to the
United States of America in 1930 for specialization, and later to
Germany and
Switzerland
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as well in 1931 and 1932. On 12 October 1932, he became a
docent at the Veterinary Faculty in Zagreb. In 1936 he became a part-time professor, and in 1940 he was accepted for full-time.
In the
Banovina of Croatia
The Banovina of Croatia or Banate of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Banovina Hrvatska, Бановина Хрватска) was an autonomous province ( banovina) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1939 and 1941. It was formed by a merg ...
he headed the Veterinary Department and from 1941 he served as undersecretary in the
Independent State of Croatia's Ministry of National Economy. He remained in the city of Zagreb after the defeat of the Independent State of Croatia and the entrance of
Yugoslav Partisans into the city on May 8, 1945. He was captured by the Partisans on May 17 and killed soon after, in Zagreb.
Family
He was married to Vlasta Lorković, daughter of
Ivan Lorković
Ivan Lorković (; 17 June 1876 – 24 February 1926) was a Croatian politician from Zagreb. He was a prominent member of the Croat-Serb coalition, a supporter of the Republican organization and member of the United Croatian and Serbian academic ...
and sister of
Mladen Lorković. The couple had two sons, Mladen and Nikola. Mladen Debelić was a well-known doctor in his own right, and Nikola Debelić served as Croatian diplomat after the nation's independence in 1991.
References
Dr Šimun Debelić
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1902 births
1945 deaths
Croatian veterinarians
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb alumni
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb
Date of death missing
Executed Yugoslav collaborators with Nazi Germany
Executed Croatian people
People killed by Yugoslav Partisans