Vavro Šrobár
| Vavro Šrobár | |
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| Minister of Health | |
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In office 1918–1920 |
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| Minister for the administration of Slovakia | |
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In office 1918–1920 |
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| Minister for public health and physical education | |
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In office 1920–1920 |
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| Minister for the unification of laws and organisation of information | |
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In office 1921–1923 |
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| Minister of education and national enlightenment | |
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In office 1921–1923 |
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| Deputy of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia | |
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In office 1918–1925 |
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| Senator of the Senate of Czechoslovakia | |
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In office 1925–1935 |
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| Deputy of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia | |
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In office 1945–1950 |
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| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 1945–1947 |
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| Minister for the unification of laws | |
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In office 1947–1950 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Vavrinec Ján Šrobár 9 August 1867 Lisková, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | 6 December 1950 (aged 83) Olomouc, Czechoslovakia |
| Political party |
Slovak National and Peasant Party Republican Party Freedom Party |
Vavro Šrobár (9 August 1867 – 6 December 1950) was a Slovak doctor and politician who was a major figure in Slovak politics in the interwar period. He played an important role in the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and served in a variety of ministerial roles between the wars. He also served for many years as a representative in the Czechoslovak parliament and was a tenured professor in the history of medicine. He retired from public life before the outbreak of the Second World War, but following the war he resumed a ministerial career in the re-established Czechoslovak government in the five years before his death.
Born in Lisková (then part of the Kingdom of Hungary), he was educated between 1878–82 at the gymnasium in Ružomberok where only the Hungarian language – which he did not speak – was used as the language of education. He moved to the German-speaking gymnasium at Levoča between 1882–83 before moving on, between 1883–86, to the gymnasia at Banská Bystrica and Přerov in Moravia, from which he ultimately graduated. As he was a Slovak he was not permitted to graduate from gymnasia in Upper Hungary (corresponding mostly to present-day Slovakia). From 1888 to 1898 Šrobár studied medicine at Charles University in Prague, where he chaired the student organisation Detvan.
After graduating he returned to Ružomberok and became the founder and chief editor of the journal Hlas (The Voice), published by and in support of progressive young Slovak intellectuals who opposed the Slovak National Party's conservative approach to politics. He was a supporter and acquaintance of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the sociologist and philosopher who went on to be the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia. After unsuccessfully running for a seat in the Diet of Hungary, his agitation on behalf of Slovak causes led to him being imprisoned for a year in 1906 along with Andrej Hlinka, on the grounds of "instigation against the Magyar nationality". He had continued to work as a doctor and in 1909 he published Ľudová obrázková zdravoveda (Illustrated Guide to Public Health).
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