Brúnó Straub
Brúnó Ferenc Straub (born January 5, 1914 in Nagyvárad , Austria-Hungary , † February 15, 1996 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian biochemist, politician and president.
Studies and career as a biochemist
After studying biochemistry at the University of Szeged , he became a professor at the University of Szeged in 1945. From 1939 to 1940 he worked at the Molteno Institute at Cambridge University . In 1949 he became director of the Biochemical Institute at Semmelweis University . Between 1960 and 1967 Straub was also head of the biological department at the Academy of Sciences .
In 1962 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Brúnó Straub was Vice President of the Academy of Sciences from 1967 to 1973 and 1985 to 1988. 1969 to 1971 he was a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) . In 1971 he also became director of the newly established Biochemical Research Center. In 1979 he was appointed director of the Institute for Enzymology .
Political career
After the Second World War, Straub became a member of the Communist Party of the Hungarian Working People (MDP), but after the popular uprising in October 1956 he no longer joined the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP), which was then founded .
In 1985, Straub was elected a member of the National Assembly as a candidate on the MSZMP state list.
On June 29, 1988, Straub was elected as the successor to Károly Németh Chairman of the Presidential Council and thus the last President of the People's Republic of Hungary . Straub received the news of his appointment during a lecture tour in the USA. After the establishment of the Republic of Hungary on October 23, 1989, he was replaced by Mátyás Szűrös .
He then withdrew from public life and no longer took up his post as a professor because of his poor health.
scientific publications
- Isolation and properties of a flavoprotein from heart muscle tissue , in: Biochemical Journal , May 1939, pp. 787-792
- Crystalline lactic dehydrogenase from heart muscle , in: Biochemical Journal, April 1940, pp. 483-486
- “Biokémia”, Budapest 1949, 219 pages
- “Szerves kémia orvostanhallgatók számára” , Budapest 1969, 276 pages
Awards
- 1974 Honorary doctorate from the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin
- 1981 Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
literature
- Bruno F. Straub , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 17/1993 from April 19, 1993, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by F. Bruno Straub (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 26, 2016.
- ↑ Doktorzy honorowi UMCS Lublin, accessed on November 20, 2015
Count Mihály Károlyi | Sándor Garbai | Miklós Horthy (imperial administrator) | Ferenc Szálasi (Leader of the Nation) | Zoltán Tildy | Árpád Szakasits | Sándor Rónai | István Dobi | Pál Losonczi | Károly Németh | Brúnó Straub | Mátyás Szűrös | Árpád Göncz | Ferenc Mádl | László Sólyom | Pál Schmitt | János Áder
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Straub, Brúnó |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Straub, Brúnó Ferenc (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian biochemist, politician and President |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagyvárad , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1996 |
| Place of death | Budapest |