Lietuvos universiteto dėstytojas, farmacininkas Benediktas Šiaulis (1887–1957) – Rokfelerio fondo stipendininkas
Lecturer at the University of Lithuania, Pharmacist Benediktas Šiaulis (1887–1957) – Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship Holder

Summary/Abstract: Benediktas Šiaulis studied pharmacy in Moscow. He studied and worked in Russia for about 18 years – from 1900 to 1921 (with a few years break). After the declaration of Lithuania’s independence, he returned to his motherland. In 1922 the University of Lithuania was established in Kaunas (in 1930 renamed as Vytautas the Great University) and B. Šiaulis became an assistant at the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacognosy. The university lacked teachers, premises, equipment as well as funds. Development of teacher competences was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation (founded in the USA). The Rockefeller Foundation awarded scholarships for promising European medical workers to study abroad. The first recipients of the Rockefeller scholarships in Lithuania were pharmacist Benediktas Šiaulis and surgeon Vladas Kuzma. V. Kuzma studied in Europe, while B. Šiaulis went to the United States (1925–1926). For six months B. Šiaulis studied in Boston at Harvard University and for another year and a half in Cleveland at the “Western Reserve” University. His supervisor in Cleveland was a famous professor of pharmacology Torald Sollmann (1874–1965). The Professor appreciated B. Šiaulis’s talents and extraordinary diligence. He used to call him “the genius of mechanics” and recommended the Rockefeller Foundation to finance his studies for an additional year. B. Šiaulis together with T. Sollmann published three articles in American and France scientific journals. After the scholarship, Šiaulis returned to Lithuania. In 1936, he defended his doctoral thesis and became the first and the only Doctor of Pharmacy in the interwar Lithuania. He had gained experience in international scientific cooperation and was able to convey his experience to colleagues and students. In 1941 B. Šiaulis became a professor. Since 1948 B. Šiaulis worked as the dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, after the reorganization of the university into two institutes he served as the dean of the Department of Pharmacy and Dentistry of the Kaunas Medical Institute (1951–1956).

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