Acta Pharm. 55 (2005) 331-337
[ Full paper in PDF ]The thirty-second anniversary of the Department of Microbiology of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, is a good opportunity to remember all the events that led to its foundation, as well as the events and people who, for the last 120 years, have developed the education of pharmacists as health professionals at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry. The subject that we nowadays call Microbiology was once called Hygiene. This was defined as the prevention of communicable diseases and improvement of health standards in population. The term microbiology was introduced in the 1920s, as the science that investigates the microscopic microorganisms that are agents of the spread of diseases. But how did microbiology develop within the Zagreb University at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, and how did the important discoveries in the field od microbiology influence the development of microbiology as a university discipline?