Edward L. Miloslavich or Eduard Miloslavić (December 20, 1884 – November 11, 1952) was a Croatian-American professor of

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. A descendant of Croatian emigrants to the

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, he was born in

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. His father Luko had moved from

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( from

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) to Dubrovnik in 1878. In the same year he married Vica Milković. A few years later the couple emigrated to the United States. The entire family—Luko, Vica, Eduard and his brothers and sisters—returned to Dubrovnik in 1889, at the time in

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. Miloslavić studied medicine in

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, where he became a professor of pathology. In 1920, an invitation came from

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in Wisconsin, to take the chair of pathology,

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and

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. In subsequent years "Doc Milo", as colleagues called him, inaugurated criminal pathology in the United States. As an outstanding specialist he was involved in investigations of crimes perpetrated by the

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gang. He was one of the founders of the International Academy for Forensic Medicine, member of many American and European scientific societies and academies, and vice president of the Croatian Fraternal Union (CFU) in the United States. In 1932, he moved to

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, at the time in

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, where he was a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb. He also lectured in pastoral medicine in the faculty of theology in Zagreb and was known as an ardent adversary of abortion and euthanasia. In 1940, he was elected a member of the prestigious "Medico-Legal Society" in London. In 1941, he was made a full member of the

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in Germany, and was awarded doctor "honoris causa" by the

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, where he had started his scientific career. After his initiative in 1941 the Faculty of Medicine in Sarajevo was founded in 1944 during the NDH regime. During his time in Zagreb, in 1943, Miloslavić was among those invited by the

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to participate in the Katyn Commission investigating the massacre of 12,000 Polish officers at the Katyn Forest in 1940. This investigation concluded that the Soviet Union had been responsible for the massacre. Fischer, Benjamin B.,
The Katyn Controversy: Stalin's Killing Field
. "Studies in Intelligence", Winter 1999–2000. Retrieved on 10 December 2005. Miloslavić moved back to the United States in 1944.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Miloslavic, Eduard Expatriates in Austria-Hungary American pathologists People sentenced to death in absentia 1884 births 1952 deaths Katyn massacre investigators Academic staff of the University of Zagreb Immigrants to Yugoslavia American emigrants