Alajos Szabo

* Quarter, October 14, 1818 – † Budapest, March 13, 1904 / physician, veterinarian, teacher at the Pest Veterinary Institute ; ; He completed high school in Nagyszombat and philosophy in Bratislava. He studied medicine at the University of Pest and obtained his doctorate in medicine and surgery, obstetrics and ophthalmology, and veterinary degrees there. After his study trip abroad, he was a lecturer's assistant at the veterinary institute from 1846. He also studied chemistry and, among other things, received a license to produce soda water. In 1848, he was the chief physician of the Jászkun Home Guard Battalion. In 1850, he was court-martialed because he trained camp blacksmiths during the War of Independence. In 1851, he was a full professor at the Pest Veterinary Institute, and from 1853 until 1875, he was its director. As director, he managed to get the Kunewalder House on Múzeum Boulevard purchased for the Pest Imperial-Royal Veterinary Institute. The large Kunewalder-style building was also home to the departments of zoology (Tivadar Margó), physiology (János Nepomuk Csermák) and surgery (János Balassa) and obstetrics (Ignác Semmelweis) of the medical faculty in the left wing of the building. In the 1850s, he was a member of the medical committee sent to combat the Eastern rinderpest. In 1876, he founded a public educational and teaching institute in Rákospalota. He also worked as a journalist and editor under the name Dr. Negyedi. In 1856, he started a weekly newspaper called Magyar Néplap. From 1860, he published the Pesti Hírnök. He published a political daily until 1862. On January 1, 1868, together with György Klapka and Móric Szentkirályi, he founded the political newspaper Századunk, which merged with Pesti Napló on November 30, 1869, and remained an internal contributor for 15 years. He also contributed to the editing of the Universal Hungarian Encyclopedia. ; ; His main works: ; Emergency Medicine in Immediate Life Dangers, 1842, ; Rabies or Anger…, 1850 (also published in German, Romanian, Slovak and Serbian in 1851–1852), ; The Life Pathology of Useful Domestic Animals, 1852, ; The Anatomy of Useful Mammals, 1852, ; Warranty in the Animal Trade (with Bill), 1868, ; Anatomy of domestic animals…., 1877, ; The keh, 1878, Physical characteristics, n.