MEMORIJALIZACIJA LIKA I DJELA DR. ADOLFA HEMPTA U LUKAVCU
MEMORIALIZATION OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. ADOLF HEMPT IN LUKAVAC

Summary/Abstract: Dr. Adolf Hempt was a physician, scientist and visionary who, in the period from 1905 to 1921, worked in Lukavac as a factory, municipal and railway physician, with jurisdiction over the public health service of the factory, municipality and railway. During his service in Lukavac and its surroundings, he was engaged in combating various forms of infectious diseases among patients, including measles, epidemics of typhus, cholera, syphilis, and rabies in both animals and humans. He will be particularly remembered for his initiative to establish the Pasteur Institute for Bosnia and Herzegovina, with its headquarters in Lukavac, as well as for his work on the realization of this project. As a result, a representative building for this purpose was constructed in 1912, which is today known as the “Solvay” Villa and holds the status of a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although Dr. Hempt did not succeed in establishing the Pasteur Institute, by 1914 he opened the Soda Factory Hospital in Lukavac, i.e. the Permanent Surgical Hospital, in the same building. Following the outbreak of the First World War, the facility functioned as a Reserve Hospital (K.u.K. Reservespital Lukavac) and a station for Austro-Hungarian soldiers and wounded. From July 1914 to November 1918, Dr. Hempt was mobilized and initially served as a staff physician and manager of the aforementioned military hospital in Lukavac, after which he became the commander of several military hospitals within the operational zone of the 5th Army Command – the Balkan and Soca Army. In Lukavac, Dr. Hempt, together with his wife Marija Hempt (née Vinkler), established a rich family life. Namely, seven out of their total of eight children were born there. Furthermore, Dr. Hempt’s parents, Adolf Hempt Sr. and Marija Hempt (née Tevely), also passed away in Lukavac and were buried in the town. With the aim of memorializing the life and work of Dr. Adolf Hempt, several scientific research projects, presentations and concrete initiatives were carried out in Lukavac in the period from 2014 to 2025, including the restoration of the tomb of Hempt’s parents at the city cemetery in Lukavac.

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