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TANULMÁNYOK / ARTICLES - Huszár György: Balogh Károly professzor (1895—1973) életútja és iskolája. Születésének centenáriumára. Magyar és angol nyelven

acceptable and they, too, accepted him. In the academic year of 1946—47 he was Dean of the Medical School and the founder and organizer of the Pápai Páriz House*; the latter fact was later ignored by Communist medical historians. (43) in a 1948 letter, the Secretary of Welfare has recognized the meritorious work of Balogh and his co-workers, Imre Földvári, György Huszár, Ferenc Skaloud and Károly Tarnai, in the maxillofacial and dental surgical treatment of those wounded in World War II. It is well known and often remarked, but insufficiently documented by professional historians, that in the post-war period of the coalition government (1945—1947) people rebuilt their destroyed homes and workplaces with an almost euphoric ardor. This enthusiasm also drove Balogh and his immediate co-workers. The effects of this reconstruction period are inseparably interwoven with the development of the clinic. For example, a large number of ambulatory patients were already being treated in one room of the ground floor of the clinic under Balogh's direction before fighting in Buda ceased. The siege ended February 13, 1945 and regular work was started in March 1945 in unheated rooms of the outpatient department. In the summer of 1945, Balogh wrote: (48) "We are alive, we are working, teaching and healing. Our clinic building is standing. We work very much, sometimes have frustrating problems, we have lively discussions, but we begin to feel again as human beings after the long period of inactivity enforced on us. ' ' After repair of most of the war damages Balogh started to enlarge the divisions of the clinic and improved their equipment according to need and financial constraints. A significant step was the establishing of new divisions and research laboratories. The division of pediatric dentistry was opened in 1950 under the leadership of Pál Tóth. To the existent routine chemistry and histopathology laboratories Balogh added new laboratories for biochemical, bacteriological, mycological, metallurgical and biomaterial studies. Under the direction of Imre Földvári he reorganized the teaching laboratory for odontotechnology. And in 1949, a new auditorium with 227 seats was built in the courtyard of the clinic. At its inauguration Balogh praised Adjunct Professor László Papp as the main moving force behind its building. Not only were the building and the equipment of the clinic renewed after 1945, but its staff replenished as well. The majority of physicians who had been dismissed before or during World War II returned and took up work again. Balogh supplemented the old personnel with some excellent specialists, including Ferenc Skaloud, Imre Székely, József Béky, Balázs Bugyi, and Károly Tarnai. Balogh encouraged the medical staff of the clinic to regularly pursue investigative work and to publish. He considered it his duty to discuss with them their projects and to advise them; even partial results of incomplete, ongoing work interested him. When a project was finished, Balogh carefully reviewed it and, if necessary, suggestsed supplementary work without even a hint at co-authorship. This benevolent and painstaking attention became a hallmark of his school-founding method. He directed the attention of each member of his staff to an area in his or her specialty or, if staff members had chosen fields of their own, A dormitory for needy medical students, named after Ferenc Pápai Páriz (1643—1716), physician and scientist. Pápai Páriz, educated in Protestant colleges of Transylvania, became a doctor of philosophy in Heidelberg and doctor of medicine in Basle by the age of 25. He returned to Transylvania and was college professor until his death.