Ph.D. med. Todor BAKOVIĆ (1936-2016)
One of the greatest authorities and dignitaries of Montenegrin humanistic medicine, popular folk doctor, primarius, scientific advisor, neuropsychiatrist, psychoanalyst, social anthropologist, writer, ethnologist, theosophist, publicist - Dr. Todor Baković, died in the silence of his home, after a long illness , forgotten by many, September 01.09.2016, XNUMX, in Podgorica.
Dr. Todor Baković belonged to the ranks of the most educated Montenegrin intellectuals with encyclopedic knowledge and erudite breadth, which he happily combined with his human warmth and kindness, so his word, like a salve, was a special medicine in medical practice, which elevated not only medical ethics, but also his unique humanism.
He was born in Štitarica, Mojkovac (1936), and graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade (1963), where he specialized in neuropsychiatry (1975) and defended his doctoral dissertation (1983) on the depressive optimism of Montenegrins. This celebrated work (published for the first time in Zagreb, 1985) has gone through several editions and constitutes a scientific synthesis of a multidisciplinary approach in research and study of psychological, psychoanalytic, philosophical, anthropological, ethical, psychiatric, historical, literary, customary and libertarian life and struggle in Montenegrin. of the people by the method of observation, analysis, interviews, questionnaires, study of medical materials, and philosophical literature and literary phenomena of various Montenegrin literary forms, with which he investigated and established the fundamental forms, nature and structure of the Montenegrin man's personality.
The biography of Doctor Todor Baković was written in golden letters by his professional duties: physician and director of the Health Center in Mojkovac (1963-1984), director of the Health Center in Danilovgrad (1984-1989), where he left a deep human and ethical stamp among Bjelopavlići and the residents of this municipality. elevating to the highest pedestal the Hippocratic principles of medical ethics and establishing the highest reach of leadership and organization of primary health care, which is the permanent legacy of this distinguished health institution.
He was the Minister of Health in the Government of Montenegro (1991), director of the Federal Institute for Health Care and director of the Institute for Health of Montenegro, where he ended his scientific and professional career.
In addition to the indicated work, Dr. Baković left, among others, the following outstanding works to the Montenegrin spiritual heritage: Depressive Optimism in Christianity (1991), Depressive Optimism in Literature (1997), Scientific Discovery of God (2003), The Heaven Opens (2005).
He is the founder of the "Milovan Đilas" Foundation for the study of the scientific, philosophical, literary and cultural achievements of his native great man.
Doctor Todor Baković was buried in his native Štitarika, to which he was bound by Anthean power, carrying its beauty and its people in his heart until the last hour. La gloire est le soleil des morts - Glory is the sun of the dead (Balzac).
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