scholarly journals Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen – A legend

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 87-90
Author(s):  
Reshma K. Kannan
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Physician ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen radicalized the views on leprosy when he discovered the leprosy bacilli in 1873. He was a man born in a humble background but with perseverance finished medicine at the University of Christiania and later joined as assistant physician under another stalwart Danielssen at St. Jogren’s Hospital, Bergen. It was here that he made the greatest discovery of his time, but it would be years before, he was truly acknowledged for his work. His theory of contagion helped in the measures to control leprosy in the form of leprosy acts. Hansen passed away in 1912, and his name remains engraved in the pages of the history of leprosy.

Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's Collins pocket guide to the sea shore (1958)

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Illustrated Text ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the publishing history of Collins pocket guide to the sea shore. This handbook, generally regarded as a classic of its genre, marked a huge step forwards in 1958; providing generations of students with an authoritative, concise, affordable, well illustrated text with which to identify common organisms found between the tidemarks from around the coasts of the British Isles. The crucial role played by a select band of illustrators in making this publication the success it eventually became, is highlighted herein. The difficulties of accomplishing this production within commercial strictures, and generally as a sideline to the main employment of the participants, are revealed. Such stresses were not helped by changing demands on the illustrators made by the authors and by the publishers.

Adam Zalužanský’s “De sexu plantarum” (1592): an early pioneering chapter on plant sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Botanical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský’s main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter “De sexu plantarum” of Zalužanský’s Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský’s chapter on plant sexuality is provided.

80 years’ history of psychology in the University of Szeged (1929–2009)

2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-676
Author(s):  
Márta Pataki ◽  
Kamilla Polyák ◽  
Dezső Németh ◽  
Ágnes Szokolszky
Keyword(s):  
History Of Psychology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Imre Sándor, a pedagógia professzora az 1920-as évek közepén felismerte, hogy külön intézetet kellene alapítani a pszichológiaoktatás számára a szegedi egyetemen. 1926 októberében felterjesztette kérelmét a bölcsészkari vezetés felé, Málnási Bartók György, a Filozófia Tanszék professzora támogatása mellett. 1929. december 18-án Klebelsberg Kuno vallás- és közoktatásügyi miniszter megalapította a Pedagógia Lélektani Intézetet a szegedi egyetemen, és kinevezte az új intézet élére Várkonyi Hildebrand Dezső (1988–1971) bencés paptanárt. Ezzel Magyarországon elsőként alakult pszichológiai intézet egyetemi kereteken belül. A cikk a szegedi lélektan intézményes történetét követi végig a Várkonyi vezette intézet megalakulásától napjainkig.

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