Dr Vojislav M. Subotić junior, neuropsychiatrist, is considered to be the founder of forensic psychiatry in Serbia. He was born on December 24th 1866 in a village Ramaća, near Kragujevac, in the family of priest. He completed secondary education in Kragujevac. In 1866 he went to medical school in Vienna. He specialized in Psychiatry in Vienna and Paris, where in 1894 he passed the specialist exam. At the service of the Hospital for Mental Diseases in Belgrade he came in 1892. In 1907 he became Primarius, and in 1911 he was appointed warden of the Hospital.
He participated in the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885, the Balkan wars and the World War I and was promoted to the rank of reserve medical lieutenant colonel; he was a long-time secretary of the Serbian Red Cross. He also was the treasurer, then secretary, and from 1921, the President of the Serbian Medical Society.
In World War I he lost his only son and wife, and he himslef got sick and was taken prisoner in 1915. Untill the end of the war he was engaged at the Hospital for mental illness in Belgrade, and at the same time he was engaged as a representative of the President of the Serbian Red Cross.
Dr Subotic was a great benefactor. All the revenue he gained from the book Dr Vladan Djordjević. 50th Anniversary of Literary Work 1860-1910, that he published in 1910, he donated to the Fund for poor doctors, their widows and orphans, of Serbian Medical Society. Due to the free medical check ups he conducted during the World War I and financial aid to the poor, people called him mother of the poor. In 1915 he founded the Foundation of Medical Student Luka and His Parents Melanija and Dr Vojislav M. Subotić, in which he had invested all his immovable property for the benefit of the poor physicians in Serbia and for the education of war orphans.
He was awarded the Medal of St. Sava of the III degree, Takovo Cross of the IV degree, Medal of White Eagle of the IV degree, The Cross of Mercy, Serbian Red Cross and several Russian medals and decorations of foreign Red Cross Societies. He has published five very significant books and 38 scientific papers in Serbia and abroad. He deceased in Vienna in 1922.
