Karlovszky Geyza

* Rimaszombat, November 22, 1860 – † Budapest, April 27, 1936 / pharmaceutical chemist ; ; After completing the lower four grades of the Calvin Square Ref. Gymnasium in Budapest, he was an apprentice in the pharmacy addressed to the Hungarian Crown in Nyíregyháza in 1874—1876, then apprenticed in Miskolc and Kecskemét. In Kecskemét, he completed the upper four grades of the high school privately and graduated in 1879. He completed his pharmaceutical studies at the Budapest University of Science and Technology, receiving a pharmacy diploma in 1881. From 1883 to 1892, he was an assistant professor under Károly Than. Later, he enrolled in the medical faculty, where he completed 9 semesters. He produced rubidium ammonium bromide, which is still used today against nervous disorders, and the bactericidal pyrocatechin monoethyl ether, which he named Thanatol after his professor. In 1892, he took over the editing of the Gyógyszeréssi Közlöny, and later, from 1896 until his death, he also edited the Gyógyszerészek Évkönyv. In 1923, he opened the Arany Szarvas pharmacy in Budapest. In his work on folk drug names, he collected about 10 thousand names. The Hungarian Gyógyszerész Egyesület awarded the Karlovszky Memorial Medal to those excellent pharmacists who performed outstanding activities in the field of literature or public health. His brother, Bertalan Karlovszky (1858–1938), was a well-known painter. ; ; His main works: ; Hungarian scientific and folk geographical names of medicines with their Latin meanings, 1887, Pocket commentary on the Chemical part of the Hungarian Pharmacopoeia – With an appendix with a sketch of volumetric analysis for the use of doctors and pharmacists (with Lajos Winkler), ; 1892.