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The monument to dr. Robert Koch built on Brijuni Island "Dem grossen Forscher Dr. Robert Koch, dem Befrierer der Insel von der Malaria, 1

900-1901" ("In respect to a great scientist, dr. Robert Koch, who freed the islands of malaria, 1900-1901 ") In 1901, R. Koch returned to Brijuni and together with Kupelwieser went to Rovinj in which Fritz Schaudinn

2 carried out research (1871-1906). Besides malaria, Schaudinn studied many other contagious diseases as well. As the head of the Department for the Research of Protozoa at the Institute of Marine Biology (established in 1891), in 1902 Schaudinn' issued an important paper on Plasmodium malariae identifying Plasmodium vivax as the causative agent of tertian fever. He also studied the causative agents of relapses of malaria seizures and sanitized the village of St. Mihajlo near Rovinj (Giesinger, 1973). In 1904, he returned to Germany. Stanislav Prowazek (1875-1915) who worked in the institute from 1903 until 1905 was then appointed the head of the Department for the Research of Protozoa. In 1903, physician Oto Lenz (1872-1959) worked on Brijuni Islands too. Later on, he got in charge of the whole physician service on the Islands of Brijuni and the neighbouring Istrian Coast (Giesinger, 1973). Richard Fritz Schaudinn (1871-1906) ' Richard Fritz Schaudinn (1871-1906) was a german zoologist and bacteriologist. In 1903 he discovered the causative agent of syphilis. He claimed that Entamoeba histolytica was the cause of amoeboid disentry. (General Encyclopedia, VI, 1962, p. 654) He worked as a head of the Institute for Protozoology at the Health Institute in Berlin ( Giesinger,

1973).