Milan Emil Amruš (October 1, 1848 – May 26, 1919) was a
Croatia
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n physician, lawyer and politician, a two-term
mayor of Zagreb
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*List of mayors in Croatia
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Amruš was born in
Brod na Savi
Slavonski Brod (), commonly shortened to simply Brod, is a city in eastern Croatia, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. Being one of the principal cities in the historical regions of Slavonia and Posavina, Slavonski Brod was the 7th large ...
, where he completed grammar school. He studied at the gymnasiums in
Vinkovci
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and
Zagreb
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, and then enrolled at the Josephinum, the academy for military doctors in
Vienna
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. Since 1872 he worked in military hospitals in Vienna and Zagreb. After the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia, he moved to
Sarajevo
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. He returned to Zagreb in 1882, when he also enrolled at the Faculty of Law at the
University of Zagreb
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Croatian Parliament
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where he would serve until 1903. He received a law doctorate in 1890. The same year he was named the mayor of Zagreb. In his capacity as mayor, he brought
electric lighting
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, but was unsuccessful. The
Zagreb Main Station
Zagreb Glavni kolodvor ( Croatian for ''Zagreb main station'') is the main railway station in Zagreb, Croatia. Located south of the city's main square, it is the largest station in Croatia and the main hub of the Croatian Railways network.
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was built during this time. His first mayoral term ended in 1892.
In 1904, he was elected mayor again. His second term was much longer and much more fruitful than the first one. During it, the electrification of Zagreb was completed on October 17, 1907. The city also got a new maternity hospital, and the first
public restroom
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s. The
gasworks
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Early gasworks
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was moved out of the city center, and during this time the company ''Zagrebački zbor'' was started, the precursor to the
Zagreb Fair
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Nikola Tomašić
Nikola Tomašić ( Hungarian: ''Miklós Tomassich'' or ''Miklós Tomasics''; 13 January 1864 – 29 May 1918) was a Croatia
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named him his deputy for matters of religion and education. In that role, Amruš started an effort to found technical faculties at the Universities, but could not achieve that goal until the end of
World War I
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in 1918.
Amruš had no children and was in fact known as a hardfisted person, but in his will he left everything, including two major mansions at
Zrinjevac Zrinjevac may mean:
* Zrinjevac (Mostar), a central park in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Zrinjevac (Osijek), a park in Osijek, Croatia
* Nikola Šubić Zrinski Square (AKA Zrinjevac), a park and square in Zagreb, Croatia
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and a rural estate in Zdenčina near Klinča Sela, to the city. He died in Zagreb at the age of 70. He was named an honorary citizen of Zagreb in 1919. His former estate was later turned into an orphanage, which was then named after him.