Acta Chimica 41. (1964)

1-2. szám - IN MEMORIAM ELEMÉR SCHULEK - A. Végh: In Memory of Elemér Schulek

IN MEMORY OF ELEMÉR SCHULEK A. VÉGH (Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Medical University, Budapest) Received March 22, 1964 Elemér Schulek was born at Késmárk, County Szepes, on the 3rd of September, 1893. His father was a pharmaceutist. After matriculation he worked for 2 years as his father’s apprentice, then, in Spring 1913, he passed a pharmaceutical probation-examination in Budapest, and in the autumn of the same year he enrolled at the Pharmacological Faculty of the University of Budapest. In 1914 he had to suspend his university studies because after his final examination at the end of the first year he enlisted and performed his military service at the front from February 1915 till November 1918. At first he worked at a field-hospital, and later at the Department of Chemistry of a field-laboratory, where he was promoted to he head of the staff. There he was principally engaged in investigations on drinking water and metabolism as well as in studies on toxicology. In November 1918 he was demobilised as a pharmaceutist-lieutenant but previously, in August of the same year he had graduated with an honours degree in pharmaceutics. In February 1919 he enrolled once more at the University of Budapest to write his doctor’s thesis and in 1920 he obtained a “summa cum laude” degree of doctor for work done in chemistry as the principal subject. Previously, in September 1919, he had joined Professor Winkler’s staff. He worked till August 1927 at the University, Institute I of Chemistry which was directed by Prof. Lajos Winkler, first as junior probationer and later as the professor’s assistant. In 1924 he was prize­winner in a competition organized by the “Committee for the Rescue of Science”. From the 1st of March, 1925, till the 10th of January, 1926, he had been holder of a so-called residential Rockefeller-fellowship. During this time he was working for the Municipal Institute of Chemical Analysis (Székesfővá­rosi Vegyvizsgáló Intézet) and studied the investigation methods which were in use there. From the 10th January, 1926 he held a Rockefeller travelling fellowship which enabled him to make study-tours to the United States of America and to European countries. In the course of his study-trips he worked with Professor Clark at the Hygiene Laboratory, then at the Bureau of Che­mistry and later at the laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry in Chicago; besides he studied the food and water supply as well as the sewage treatment Acta Chim. Hung. Tomut 41. 1964

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