Dr. Svetozar Marković: The founder of the school hygiene in Serbia

Dr. Svetozar Marković (1860-1916) graduated from the Medical School in Paris, France (1894) and was the founder of the schools hygiene in Serbia. He founded the Society for School Hygiene and People's Enlightenment (1906); he also established the Svetlost (1908), a periodical that was regularly published for six years, until the beginning of the World War I (1914). He was involved in introducing high standards in schools based on medical science, with a purpose of maintaining, and not ruining the health of students. He was a pioneer in this field of work