Dr. Murai Éva - Gubányi András szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 29-30. (Budapest, 1997)

© Hungarian Natural History Museum Hungarian Society of Parasitologists Parasit. hung., 29-30: 87-93, 1996-1997 In memóriám Tibor Kobulej (1921-1997) Tibor KASSAI (Received 11 June, 1997) It was just a few months ago that Professor Tibor Kobulej was cordially addressed at the General Meeting of the Hungarian Society of Parasitologists on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Though his chronic ill health was well known to his friends and colleagues nobody suspected that the fate would be so much stingy to give him such a limited time of life to enjoy. He passed away on 3rd May, 1997 of a sudden heart attack. He was born in Munkács in the Czechoslovak Republic (now Mukachevo of the Ukrainian Republic) on 20 March 1921. His father was an Ukrainian railway officer. He attended grammar school at his birthplace, Munkács and Beregszász (now Beregovo). Then he moved to Hungary and graduated as veterinarian in 1944 from the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences of the "József Nádor'

1 University of Technical and Economical Sciences of Budapest. It was in 1947 that he joined the Department of General Zoology and Parasitology of the University of Veterinary Sciences in Budapest. He was awarded the degree of Candidate of Veterinary Science in 1952. As Professor Sándor Kotlán retired in 1966 Tibor Kobulej succeeded him to the Chair of that Department that he headed in the ensuing 16 years until his retirement in 1982. Under his direction the educational and scientific activities of the Department were focused to meeting the demands raised by the large-scale and cooperative farming system and by the establishing specialized industrial units in bovine, porcine and poultry husbandly. His scientific interests in parasitology were very wide. Studies of the epidemiologically important features of the economically relevant helminthoses of livestock, including liver fluke and rumen fluke diseases, ascariosis of pigs, echinococcosis and toxocarosis of dogs, hypodermosis of cattle, amidostomosis of geese, etc. were always in the front line of his research interest. The results of these studies were meant to provide the basis of anthelmintic campaigns, what he as an ardent follower of the devastation theory put forward by the Soviet school of