Brunó Ferenc Straub

Brúnó Ferenc Straub ( born January 5, 1914 in Nagyvarad, 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 in 1945 he was professor at the University of Szeged. 1939 to 1940 he was assistant at the Molteno Institute, University of Cambridge. In 1949 he became director of the Biochemical Institute of the Semmelweis University. Between 1960 and 1967 Professor Straub was also Head of the Biological Division of the Academy of Sciences.

Professor Straub was from 1967 to 1973 and from 1985 to 1988 Vice- President of the Academy of Sciences. 1969 and 1971 he was a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA). In 1971 he became the Director of the newly established biochemical examination center. 1979 he was appointed director of the Institute of Enzymology.

Political career

After the Second World War Straub was a member of the Communist Party of the Hungarian Working People (MDP ), but resigned after the popular uprising in October 1956, which was founded after the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ( MSZMP ) no longer with.

Straub 1985 as a contestant on the state list and as a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ( USAP ) was elected deputy to the National Assembly.

On June 29, 1988 Straub was elected to succeed by Károly Németh as Chairman of the Presidential Council and thus to the last president of the People's Republic of Hungary. Straub received the news of his appointment during a lecture tour in the United States. After the founding of the Republic of Hungary on 23 October 1989 he was replaced by Mátyás Szurös.

Then he withdrew from public life and took for his health no longer his position as professor at.

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 kemia orvostanhallgatók számára ", Budapest 1969, 276 pages

Awards

Source

• Short biography in biografiasyvidas.com
• Homepage of the Semmelweis -Institut

Count Mihály Károlyi | Sándor Garbai | Miklós Horthy ( Regent ) | Ferenc Szálasi ( Leader of the Nation) | Zoltán Tildy | Árpád Szakasits | Sandor Ronai | István Dobi | Pál Losonczi | Károly Németh | Brúnó Straub | Mátyás Szurös | Árpád Göncz | Ferenc Mádl | Laszlo Solyom | Pál Schmitt | János Áder

• President (Hungary )
• University teachers ( Szeged )
• University teachers ( Semmelweis University )
• Member of the Leopoldina
• Of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique ( Collane )
• Hungarian
• Born in 1914
• Died in 1996
• Man