Antal Genersich

* Nagyszombat, February 24, 1842 – † Budapest, June 4, 1918 / pathologist, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1906) ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Késmárk and Eperjes. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Pest in 1865. In 1865–1868 he was an assistant professor with Lajos Arányi (Komárom) at the Pest Pathology Institute, and from 1868 he was the chief physician of the Pathology Department at the Pest Szent Rókus Hospital. In the same year he went on a two-year study trip abroad with a scholarship (Würtzburg, Leipzig, Vienna, Berlin – here he worked with Rudolf Virchow). From 1870 he was a public full-time professor of pathology at the Kolozsvár Surgical Institute, and from 1872 at the newly established Faculty of Medicine of the University of Kolozsvár. In 1870–1876 he founded the collection of the Pathological Institute, in 1876–1877 he was the dean of the medical faculty, in 1877–1878 he was the rector of the university. From 1875 he was the honorary chief physician of the city of Kolozsvár. ; in 1895–1913 he was a professor at the University of Budapest, director of the II. Pathological Institute, in 1910–1911 he was the rector of the university. His research was mainly related to tuberculosis, the separation of human and bovine tuberculosis, the pathology of syphilis, leukemia, deformity, stone formation, trichinosis. Many of his publications were published in foreign and domestic journals. The Genersich Foundation, established in Budapest in 1991, annually awards the Genersich Prize to Hungarian doctors and medical students from the Carpathian Basin who have demonstrated significant scientific work. ; ; His main works: ; On the operation of the Kolozsvár m. kir. súd. ügyestet, 1878, ; The deformed skull, 1880, ; His contribution to the tuberculosis debate (International Congress of Internal Medicine, Berlin), 1890, ; Autopsy report, 1890, ; Laws and regulations of interest to the forensic physician, 1894, ; Forensic medicine (with János Belky), 1895.