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Remembrance in Time
In 1928 he passed his doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Forensic Medicine with
the title, „Car Accidents ", under the guidance of Professor Mina Minovici. In the same
year, he is assigned as regiment/military physician in the garnison Braila then Turnu
Severin and Lugoj afterwards.
In Lugoj he met important intellectuals with international relations, for example he
met the typographer Auspitz who would publish his work, “La Phonoscopy "in 1935 and
he would send this paper the Publishing House ,,G.Doine" in Paris. The work „La
Phonoscopie "presented in 1937 at the International Congress of Military Medicine in
Bucharest, is awarded the prize, ”General Physician Dr. Papiu Alexander", which is
awarded to the most meritorious work written by military doctors.
The International Congress of Military Medicine had among its participants military
doctors from different armies, from the Soviet Union and the USA. These doctors,
including Dr. W.S. Bainbridge, the head of the American delegation, a Navy doctor, have
expressed their interest in the paper presented by Ştefan Odobleja. On this occasion,
Ştefan Odobleja distributed to the congress participants an abstract in French, announcing
the appearance of the work „The Consonant Psychology".
In 1938, the first volume of " The Consonant Psychology " was published at the
Maloin publishing house in Paris, and in 1939 the second volume. The emergence of this
paper is announced in January 1941, and the prestigious international journal of
psychology, „Psychological abstract ", heading 643, page 51, which is given a brief
description of the content of the book.
When the war started, Dr. Ştefan Odobleja is sent to the front. As a military doctor, he
took part on the Eastern war front and then on the Western Front. He escaped with his life
believing that an icon that he kept all the time with him protected and saved him out of
the fiercest battle after which there were few survivors. After the war ended he is named
physician at the Military hospital in Dej where he met the medical student Eva Ilies,
whom he married 5 .
His life as military doctor was difficult, with many obligations and injustice. Being
concerned with the research, Dr. Ştefan Odobleja dreamt to practice medicine in a private
office that could offer him peace of mind study. Or, the military medical status during the
period 1945-1947, was particularly uncertain.
In 1947 there is an ordinance to retire military personnel, who seemed advantageous to
him as he was offered an important amount of money (which he used to acquire land to
build a house in Turnu Severin) and a pension equivalent to 75% of his salary.
In the same period, Dr. Ştefan Odobleja had a Transfer Order to the Military Hospital
in Bucharest, being supported by Professor Dr. George Zapan, who appreciated Odobleja
and wanted him to be the major contributor to research clinics in Bucharest. Between the
two alternatives, Odobleja family chooses the settling in their native village.
Thus, Dr. Ştefan Odobleja went to the Commissioner of Craiova, applied for the
retiring and he settled in his native village. But dreams did not last long. Withdrawn in
the countryside, his wife discovered, after the birth of the first child, that it was a big
difference between Cluj and the life in a village, without electricity and asphalt. Therefore
Ştefan Odobleja found himself left by his wife, having a child and a very small pension
because the order was not enforced. He adapted to the country life, deprived of all
facilities and in process of communization 6 . The association and the foundation of GAC
started in the village. The peasants were depossessed by their lands, the animals taken to a
common stable. The plows, the agricultural gear were thrown away at the village border.