Divisions

At the University of Zagreb the Biology started developing as botany and zoology, since at that time those were the only biological disciplines. At what was then called the “Mudroslovni” faculty, professor Bohuslav Jiruš started botany classes on April 21st 1876, and a bit later professor Spiridion Brusina started zoology classes. Biology, as did the other natural sciences, then developed within the Faculty of Philosophy until 1946 when the Faculty of Science (PMF) was established within which the Department of Biology and its two divisions of Botanical and Zoology are included. The Division of the Physiology of Animals was established in 1963 (today it is called the Division of Animal Physiology), and the Division of Molecular Biology was established in 1989 and the Division of Microbiology was established in 2010. From 1995 the Department of Biology is called the Division of Biology which is comprised of:

Other parts of the Faculty are:

  • Botanical Garden
  • Division of Methodology for Teachers of Biology
  • Division of Physical Education of the Faculty of Science  
  • Central Biological Library