Prof. Dr. Ilija Jorga was born on November 15, 1940 in Belgrade, formerly Yugoslavia and present-day Serbia, and is the second son of Cornelius Jorga, a civil engineer and cousin of Nicholae Jorga. He graduated from the Medical University of Belgrade, the city he calls his homeland, with a degree in Medicine (Clinical Physiology and Sports Medicine). Today he travels all over the world and spends several months a year in Russia and the United States. He is the best-known senior karate instructor in the Balkans. Prof. Dr. Jorga is the founder of Fudokan Karate and professor of physiology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade. He incorporated the knowledge of physiology and anatomy into the development of Fudokan Karate as he created a unique style of traditional karate – Fudokan, for which he has become world famous.