Olga Palić-Szanto (1890-1971), M.D., Ophthalmologist: biographical notes

Dr. Olga Palić-Szanto lived in Serbia working as an ophthalmologist from 1919 to 1947. We were able to follow her life and work from documents found in the archives of Belgrade and Novi Sad. Olga Szanto was born in 1890 in Gyoma, Hungary. Having completed the studies of medicine in Budapest and Berlin she worked with the First Eye Clinic of the University of Budapest with the famous Professor Emil Gross for six years. In 1919 she moved to Novi Sad and in 1921 to Belgrade and worked at the Eye Department of the General State Hospital for one and a half years. Until the beginning of the Second World War she worked at several outpatient ophthalmology departments of several hospitals. Olga Palić-Szanto published a great number of papers in prominent medical journals of Europe and America. We were able to identify as many as 58 titles of her published works which cover different fields of ophthalmology. In the journal "Serbian Archives of Medicine"we traced four of her studies published in between the two world wars, two of which we discuss in this paper. She was an active public figure in Belgrade and elsewhere, not only in the field of ophthalmology but also as a member of the Association of University-Educated Women and Women's League for Peace and Freedom. She returned to Hungary probably in 1947, where she continued to write and publish a number of papers. Dr. Olga Palić-Szanto died in Budapest in 1971.