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

helminthology founded by K. I. Skrjabin instigated and encouraged indefatigably and with great enthusiasm. He has organized dosis confirmatory field studies of several, emerging potent parasiticides such as niclofolan, praziquantel, albendazole, ditriphon and others. Among the numerous other subjects of Professor Kobulej'

s research interests we may mention his studies on the morphology of sarcoptic and trombiculid mites, the experimental work clarifying the migration pattern of Toxocara larvae in the mouse as paratenic host, the field study on lymnaeid snails playing part in the life cycle of Fasciola in Hungary. He proposed a simple method of forecasting outbreaks of liver fluke disease. He was concerned in the elaboration and launching of rational and economic control programmes applicable under large-scale farming conditions against fasciolosis, paramphistomosis, gastrointestinal nematodosis of ruminants, ascariosis of pigs, hypodermosis of cattle. He never stopped emphasizing the hazard what parasitic infections of livestock and companion animals may present to the human health, and tirelessly propagated the need of implementing integrated control programmes especially against larval echinococcosis (hydatidosis) and toxocarosis (visceral larva migrans). Although his cardiac illness rendered him to retire from laboratory and administrative work in 1982, his interest in current matters of parasitology never flagged, and he continued paying his visits frequently at the Department until the very recent time. The results of his scientific work have been published in 4 books and book chapters, and some 60 original papers. He has made his most meaningful contribution to the Hungarian parasitological literature by updating Kotlán's earlier textbook on parasitology, and the new (fourth) edition, Kotlán and Kobulej: Parazitológia (1972) served for long as a definitive and comprehensive reference work for training veterinary students and guiding practising veterinarians. In his life throughout the professional work was always combined with communal and political activities. He has been member of the presidium of the Hungarian Society of Parasitologists since its foundation in 1964. He extended his services to the whole of the Hungarian veterinary medicine as being the technical editor of Acta Veterinaria Hungarica since its launching in 1951 for 30 years. He had been one of the leading officers of the Hungarian Veterinary Association first as elected Secretary, then Vice-President (19731978). He was member of the Board of the Hungarian Zoonosis Society. He was a recognized person also in international professional circles. He had excellent command of the Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and German languages and his polyglottism helped him to become a respectful cultivator of the international relations of parasitologists particularly in the Central an East European region. He maintained especially intensive contacts with the prestigious Soviet parasitologists. He was elected Vice-President (19751977) of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology, honorary member of the All-Union Society of Helminthologists, the Czechoslovak, the Bulgarian and the German Parasitological Societies. He was member of the editorial boards of Parasitologia Hungarica, Acta Veterinaria Hungarica, Helminthologia, Folia Parasitologica, Angewandte Parasitologic He was decorated by the Golden Medal of Order of Work (1956) and by the Commemoration Medal of the Hungarian Society of Parasitologists (1975) and by the K. I. Skrjabin Memorial Medal of the All-Union Helminthological Society (1983). Tibor Kobulej had wide intellectual interests outside parasitology with a special love for history. When asked for help he gave it willingly and unstintingly. He was a man devoted