Career
An ethnic Croat in modern terms, he was a supporter of King Alexander I"s unitarianist policies, and considered himself a Yugoslav and a Dalmatian. He was employed in Innsbruck as an assistant at the Institute for General and Experimental Pathology, undertook further training in Ljubljana and became Director of his own surgical sanatorium in Split in 1904, the Račić Sanatorium. He oversaw the start of hospital modernization in the city, and began the forestation of Marjan hill.
At the beginning of World World War II Račić was appointed by Draža Mihailović as Chetnik Povjerenik ("trustee") for Dalmatia.
Račić worked closely with Chetnik military commander Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin. Račić was executed for treason by the Partisans when, after the Italian capitulation in 1943, they temporarily liberated Split from Italian occupation.
