[The important role of professor doctor Milovan Milovanovitsh in contemporary suicidology].

The paper deals with the important role of professor Milovan Milovanovitsh in contemporary suicidology. His monograph "Suicide", published in 1929, is a classical and excellent book in which medicolegal, psychosocial, statistical and preventive aspects of suicide are analyzed. His visionary ideas characterize this suicidologic manual, and many of his statements are widely accepted in modern science, e.g. definition of suicide, necessity of multidisciplinary approach in suicidological studies, analysis of suicidal predisposition and motives, concept of "appeal" phenomenon in suicidal behaviour, importance of suicidal announcements and attempts, characteristics of suicides in different periods and social conditions, making of the autopsy-anamnestic method for diagnosis of suicide, problems of prevention of suicide, etc. The work of Milovan Milovanovitsh was the important and primary basis for further suicidologic studies.