Mihaly Malan

* Zólyom, September 16, 1900 – † Budapest, October 13, 1968 / physician, anthropologist, university professor ; ; He graduated from a high school in Budapest, District VII, in 1918. He studied medicine and humanities in Budapest (1918–1926), and was awarded a doctorate in both fields. In 1924–1940, he was an assistant professor and then an assistant professor at the Institute of Pathology and the Institute of Anthropology of the Budapest University of Science and Technology. In 1932, he organized the sports-anthropology laboratory at the College of Physical Education, which he headed until 1940. In the meantime, he was qualified as a private university teacher in 1937, and in 1937–1938, he was a scholarship holder in Berlin-Dahlem. In 1940–1946, he was a public full professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Cluj. In 1946–1948, he headed the anthropology group of the MNM. In 1949–1958, he was a scientific associate at the Anthropology Collection of the Museum of Natural History. From 1950, he taught anthropology as a lecturer at the University of Debrecen, and from 1963 to 1967, until his retirement, as an appointed university professor. His research area covered almost all branches of anthropology and human biology. Among other things, he conducted an anthropological study of the Székelys of Hadikfalva and Józseffalva who had migrated from Bukovina, based on the data of 3,000 adults. He demonstrated the inheritance of the ability to navigate. He initiated the establishment of the journal Anthropological Bulletins, of which he was the editor for 15 years. In 1957 he obtained the title of Doctor of Biological Sciences. ; ; His main works: ; Data on the anthropology of the Neolithic inhabitants of the Lengyel settlement, 1929, ; The physical development of the Budapest apprentices, 1934, ; Everyday exercise and physical development, 1936, ; Anthropological research on the living Hungarians, 1947, ; Apes, 1954, ; The ancestors of the primitive man, 1954, ; Ergebnisse der ethnisch-anthropologischen Forschungen des Ungarntums, 1961, ; Twins and twin research, 1962.