George Lajos Arányi

Komárom, 29 May 1812 – † Nagymaros, 28 July 1887 / physician, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; Originally his name was Lóstájner. His father sympathized with the Habsburgs, but his son, influenced by his uncle, became Hungarian-minded and changed his original name to Arány around 1840. He completed his high school studies in Buda, with the Piarists, and then attended philosophy, law, Greek and English, natural history and pathology lectures at the University of Pest. During the great cholera epidemic in 1831, as a law student, he helped a lot in caring for cholera patients, so on the advice of his mother he finally exchanged the legal career for medicine. During school breaks, he toured the country on foot, deepening his knowledge of language, ethnography and folk remedies. His notes (and drawings) made at that time amount to about a hundred sheets. He expanded his medical knowledge in Vienna and Padua. After returning home, he became an extraordinary professor of pathology at the University of Pest in 1844. Lajos Arányi served as chief field physician during the 1848/49 War of Independence, for which reason he was suspended for nearly a year in 1850. From 1855 onwards, he again gave regular lectures, primarily on the topic of pathology, of which he became the founder in Hungary. He was appointed a university professor in 1861, but was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in December 1858. In addition to his medical work, he also dealt with archaeology and the Vajdahunyad Castle was renovated on his initiative. He proposed the erection of a large-scale St. Stephen's memorial complex, but only an equestrian statue of this was realized. In his hometown, a bilingual plaque commemorates him on the wall of a corner building in Klapka Square, which was commissioned by the Slovak section of the Hungarian Health Society (MET) at the initiative of medical historian Dr. László Kiss in 2007. The Slovak MET organizes Arányi Days in Komárom every two years. ; ; His main works: ; Medical student thesis on the hellish scoundrel, 1837, ; Memoranda der pathologischen Anatomie, 1855, ; Elements of pathology, 1864, ; Four views of the Vajda-Hunyad castle, built in 1452 and burned down in 1854, explained with a short text on 4 plaques, 1867, ; Let us pay off our 800-year debt and erect a memorial to the glorification of King Stephen, 1870.