Background
Marko Gerbec was born in Šentvid pri Stični (then part of the Duchy of Carniola, now in Slovenia) to the family of a serf.
president scientist Carniolan physician
Marko Gerbec was born in Šentvid pri Stični (then part of the Duchy of Carniola, now in Slovenia) to the family of a serf.
lieutenant was published in 1717 and 44 years after its publication quoted by Giovanni Battista Morgagni. Just a few days before the arrival of the Ottoman Army at Vienna in 1683, he left the city for Padua. He finished his studies in 1684 at Bologna.
One of his professors there was Marcello Malpighi.
Gerbec was an internationally recognized physician. In 1693, he was among the founders of Academia Operosorum Labacensium in Ljubljana.
This was the first scientific academy in the territory of present-day Slovenia. From 1712 to 1713, he was its president
In 1712, he also founded the first scholarly society of physicians and surgeons in Carniola, named the College of Saints Cosmas and Damian (Slovene: bratovščina sv Kozma in Damjana).
In 1688, he became a member of the German Academia Cesarea Leopoldina. As member of the nobilis forolensis, Gerbec is described on a memorial tablet at Padua.