Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 10-11. (Budapest, 1958)

SUMMARY Hugo Preisz (1880—1940) started his medical career as a pathological anatomist. A tour abroad at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and with Robert Koch arose at tlhe age of 30 his interest in bacteriology, then a science in birth. Returning from his journey, he became an ardent disciple of this science and remained it until his death. The milestones in his career were his directorship in the new State Bacteriological Institute, and later on his professorship at the Veterinary College. From this post he was invited by the Budapest Medical University, where he became the first Hungarian professor of bacteriology. Here he worked from 1906 until 1931, employing these twenty-five years to lay the foundations of Hungarian microbiology, to form a great number of disciples and specialists, 9 of whom became university professors in their turn, with five them still holding lectures. His most important studies were directed to the virulence of bacteria, especially of the Bacillus anthraeis. He discovered the B. pseudotuberculosis rodentium, and, in collaboration, with Nocaird. the N. pseudotuberculosis ovis. He wrote 67 scientific papers and 5 books, which covered the whole domain of microbiology. Hungary and several foreign countries honoured him with decorations, he was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a honorary doctor of the Debrecen University.