Kapronczay Károly szerk.: Orvostörténeti Közlemények 200-201. (Budapest, 2007)

KISEBB KÖZLEMÉNYEK — COMMUNICATIONS - IZSÁK Sámuel: Paul Ehrlich kolozsvári vonatkozásai

SUMMARY The town Kolozsvár (today Cluj, Romania) till the Second World War mostly inhabited by Hungarians was the centre of the Transylvanian Hungarian culture. The present article calls our attention to the fact, that the medical society of Kolozsvár had vivid connections with Paul Ehrlich, whose achievements were quickly introduced into the contemporary Transylvanian medical practice. Ehrlich' main work - Die Experimentelle Chemotherapie der Spirillosen - was translated instantly, still in the year of its birth into Hungarian and published by an eminent dennatologist of the Kolozsvár University, Tamás Marschalkó. In 1920 a propaganda-movie was produced by the Hungarian Theatre of the town on the horrors of syphilis. The script of it was written by the famous Rumanian scientist C. Levaditi and by a Hungarian medical student Jenő Gyalui: Ehrlich's person played an important role in the film. As a result of a certain cult of Ehrlich in Kolozsvár, the Transylvanian Jewish Medical Society - founded by Hungarian physicians in 1930 - took up the name of Paul Ehrlich. It existed as Paul Ehrlich Jewish Medical Society up to the deportation and annihilation of its members in 1944. The society organized sessions and published articles in the 30ies for the memory of Ehrlich.