Paul Liptak

* Felka, June 29, 1887 – † Budapest, January 31, 1949 / pharmacist, university professor ; ; He obtained his medical degree at the Budapest University of Science and Technology in 1910, and from 1914 he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, from 1922 he was an assistant professor, then its director. In 1922 he became a private teacher, in 1932 he was an honorary extraordinary professor, and in 1939 he became a public full professor. He was one of the founders and secretary-general of the Hungarian Pharmaceutical Society, and between 1925 and 1947 he edited the Bulletin of the Hungarian Pharmaceutical Society. As a pharmaceutical researcher, he primarily dealt with the active ingredients of ipecacuanha root, drugs containing oxymethyl-anthraquinone derivatives, and the active ingredients of ergot. ; ; His main works: ; Studies in the field of pharmaceutical knowledge, 1914; About our poisonous herbs, 1920; Medicines of ancient times, 1923; The mithridatum, 1947; The development of pharmaceutical knowledge in the last 100 years, 1948.