Maribor Doctor Filip Terč and his "Bee Therapy"

Abstract

Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in English (Abstract in English and Slovenian, Summary in Slovenian) Key words: Filip Terč (1844–1917), apimedicine, apitherapy, Styrian Beekeeping Society, Maribor National Home Abstract: Doctor Filip Terč (1844–1917), an important but little-known figure in the field of medicine and health care in Maribor and the Slovenian Lands, was besides working in a clinic also involved in beekeeping. This led him to great discoveries, for which he is nowadays considered to be a pioneer of modern apitherapy and immunology in Central Europe. He also played an important role in the field of social life; in 1878 he became chairman of the Maribor branch of the Styrian Beekeeping Society. He was also a member of the Slavic Reading Society and an influential member of the Supervisory Board of the Maribor Loan Bank, in the framework of which he financially supervised the construction of the National Home in Maribor.

Maribor Doctor Filip Terč and his "Bee Therapy"

“…46 Thus, bearing in mind his beekeeping activity, Terč was nicknamed the knight Immenholt der Grausame ("Honey-sweet kind the Terrible"). 47 Regardless of his membership in the German merrymaking society, Dr. Filip Terč was among Maribor Slovenians regarded a Slovenian physician from his very arrival from Vienna. He is also mentioned as such in the Maribor Slovenian Calendar, published in 1913, together with Dr. Ivan Turšič and dentist Dr. Viktor Kac.…”