Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 97-99. (Budapest, 1982)

KISEBB KÖZLEMÉNYEK - ELŐADÁSOK - Csillag István: Gruby Dávid (angol nyelven)

It is the irony of fate that he got everything with the one exception of a faculty chair. Yet he taught, if not the youth, but university professors and academicians. He was master of world-famous professors like Magendi, Claude Bernard, Flourens, Langenbeck and others. The life of David Gruby may be divided into three periods: the one spent in Hungary and Austria up to his graduation, then the eighteen years while scientific results were born, the third being the period of medical practice. I do not intend to deal with his scientific activity since it had been done by more competent authors: Frigyes Korányi,

9,10 Lajos Nékám, Gyula Magyary-Kossa, Sándor Fritz, Imre Bartók,

11 Gyula Regöly-Mérei,

12 Blanchard,

13 Schobel, Saubouraud,

14 etc. I am going to speak of his life briefly and present some unknown data about it. THE PERIOD IN HUNGARY AND AUSTRIA Dávid Gruby was born on 20 August 1810 at Kiskér in Bács county. His father, Menachem Mendel Gruby, farmer.

15 Dávid was an eighth or ninth child, at 13 he went up to Pest, nearly penniless.

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17 Schindler, a Jewish innkeeper in Pest provides the child with board and lodging for his work at his inn in Váci Street. In autumn 1823 a kindhearted Piarist teacher took pity of the boy who was craving for knowledge and managed his admission to the first from of the Piarist grammar school, where he finished all his secondary studies.

18 In 1829 he went to Vienna to study medicine. During his undergraduate years he lived in privation. In the bitter cold he and his mate kept in bed reading the material to each other at a dim light. Gruby threw himself with great ambition to his microscopic studies. At last he obtained the degree of doctor of medicine and oculist in Vienna, on 18 March 1839. It seems to be certain that he twice returned to Hungary, in 1831 and 1837.

19 It reads in several lexicons and papers that Gruby would have returned to take part in 9 X. Y. Z. (L. Markusovszky, F. Korányi, I. Hirschler): Útitöredékek. (Fragments from the journey.) O. H. 3, 1859, 757—761. 10 Korányi, Frigyes: Emlékezések Gruby Dávidról. (Recollections on Dávid Gruby.) O. H. 32, 1898, 600—601, 613—615 11 Bartók, Imre: Gruby Dávid élete és munkássága. (The life and work of Dávid Gruby.) Gyógyászat, 72, 1932, 483—486, 501—502 12 Regöly-Mérei, Gyula: Gruby Dávid hatása a tudományos orvostan kutatási irányára. (Dávid Gruby's influence upon the trend of scientific medicine.) O. H. 11, 1970, 2491—2493 13 Blanchard: David Gruby. Archives de Parasitologic, 1899. "Nékám, Lajos: Raimond Jacques Sabouraud 1864—1938. Obituary. O. H. 1938. 163—164 15 S. no. 5 lc Reich, Ignác: Beth-El. II, 1867, 426—432 17 De Gerando, Ágostonné, Gr. Teleki 'Emma: Antonina és Attila könyve. (The book for Antonina and Attila.) Vol. I—IV. Paris, 1852—64. 2nd ed.: Budapest, 1899. 468—481: „A kis Ferencz vagy az állhatatos tanuló" (Little Ferenc or the steady schoolboy.) — She describes Dávid Ferenc (?) Gruby's childhood. 18 S. no. 5 la S. no. 5