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

1880-1881 8 September 1881 1882, Budapest 31 October 1883 1884, Breslau 1890, Stuttgart 1892 24 October 1898 He went to on a study-tour abroad. He visited Berlin, Basel, Geneva, Paris, Algiers and Regensburg. The "Természettudományi Társulat" [Society of Natural Sciences] commissioned him and Gyula Pethő to translate the anthropological manual of Topinard. Professor of the Anthropological Institute at the University of Budapest. He published, the very first Hungarian periodical of anthropology "Antropológiai Füzetek" at his own cost. He was entrusted to analyse the skeletons of the Kings from the Árpád dynasty. He introduced several craniometric instruments of his own pattern at the Anthropological Itinerary Congress. His manual "Grundzüge einer systematischen Kraniometrie" was issued. He obtained associateship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. King Franz Joseph decorated him with the Order of the Iron Crown for his services rendered at the research of the royal graves. 2 September 1912 Geneva. Death took him on the eve of a congress of anthropology. "This life, this work served as examples in the past but they set examples for the present and the future, too. They might motivate us to look incessantly for the ways and means leading to the flourishment of anthropology still suffering such a hard fate in our country. " (Bartucz, 1962)

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