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
This article contains a list of people who have served as mayor of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, or president of the Zagreb Assembly.
List
See also
*List of mayors in Croatia
References
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Amruš was born in
Brod na Savi
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, 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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.
While in Zagreb, he joined the
Independent People's Party and in 1889 he became a member of the
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
Nikola Tesla
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back from the United States in an effort to get the city
electric lighting
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, but was unsuccessful.
The
Zagreb Main Station 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 restrooms. The
gasworks
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Early gasworks
Coal ...
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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.
In 1911,
ban Nikola Tomašić
Nikola Tomašić (Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Miklós Tomassich'' or ''Miklós Tomasics''; 13 January 1864 – 29 May 1918) was a Croatian politician, who served as ban (title), ban (viceroy) of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. In 1903 he s ...
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 and a rural estate in Zdenčina near
Klinča Sela
Klinča Sela is a municipality in Zagreb County, Croatia
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, 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.
References
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1848 births
1919 deaths
People from Slavonski Brod
Physicians from Zagreb
Physicians from Austria-Hungary
Representatives in the Croatian Parliament (1848–1918)
Mayors of Zagreb
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery