Dr. I. Pap szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 22. Budapest, 1992)

A biographical sketch of the life of ponori Török (Thewrewk) Aurél (Based on the articles of L. Bartucz) by Cs. Horváth and I. Pap, Budapest 13 February 1842 1852 1861 1863 1864 22 October 1867 1867 -1869 24 May 1869 29 July 1869 Summer 1869 September 1871 - September 1872 1872 -1878 August 1878 3 December 1878 1879 1881 Born in Pozsony (Pressburg). Started secondary school at the Piarist grammar school of Pest. Immaculated at the register of the Medical Faculty of the University of Pest. He translated several German, French and English articles as a medical student for the periodical "Gyógyászat'". He went to the University of Vienna to attend the lectures of famous professors Brücke, Hyrtl, Oppolzer and Skoda. He received his medical doctor's diploma in Vienna. He was assistant of Professor Jenő Jendrassik in the Physiological Institute of the University of Pest. He was promoted private-docent of "Ebrénytan" [Small beings] and "Szövetfejlődéstan" [Histogeny] at the Medical Faculty of Pest. He was commissioned "Public ordinary Professof of Physiology, Histology and the related Medical Physics as well as Pathology and Forensic Medicine at the Surgical Academy of Kolozsvár. He visited several physiological institutes in Germany. He carried out evolutionary research on evolution in Bonn, in Tübingen and in Würzburg. Professor of Physiology and Histology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Kolozsvár. He met Paul Broca at the World Exhibition of Paris. He was transferred to the Regional and Descriptive Anatomy Institute of the University of Kolozsvár. He started anthropological, anatomical and physiological research. The "Természettudományi Közlöny" published his first articles and reports on anthropology. He was the first to announce and to deliver regular lectures of anthropology.