In Memoriam Tibor Jávor, MD, ScD, Professor of Medicine

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In the 81 year of his life, Professor Tibor Javor deceased in Budapest on the 5 of April 2007. Tibor Javor was a physician, a university professor, and the director of the 1 Department of Medicine at the Medical University of Pecs, Hungary for 25 years (from 1968 to 1993). He was born in Debrecen (Hungary) on the 10 of April 1926. He passed the school-leaving examination there in 1944. In September 1945 he enrolled in the Medical Faculty of the University of Sciences in Debrecen, and he completed his studies with honours ‘summa cum laude’ in 1951. During his student years he was one of the founders of the People’s College of Debrecen that bore the name of Bela Bartok. From his third year at the university he worked under the direction of Professor Lorand Kesztyus, first at the Institute of Physiology, then at the Institute of Pathophysiology of the university. Between 1951 and 1954 he gained postgraduate scholarship at the 1 Department of Medicine at the Medical University of Szeged, Hungary under Professor Geza Hetenyi. He worked as an assistant professor at the 1 Department of Medicine in Szeged between 1956 and 1958, as a lecturer at the 2 Department of Medicine at the Medical University of Debrecen between 1958 and 1962, and then as a senior lecturer at the same university department between 1962 and 1968. In 1968, by open competition, he became director of the 1 Department of Medicine at the Medical University of Pecs, where he occupied this post until the 30 of June 1993. He passed specialist examination of internal medicine in 1958 (108/58 III.29), later he obtained specialist’s titles of gastroenterology (J-512/79) as well as of clinical pharmacology (J-511/79). In each speciality, he became a member of the board of examiners. He gained the title of candidate of medical sciences on the 11 of July 1957 (number of the document: 1371) and doctor of medical sciences on the 15 of May 1968 (number of the document: 801). In 1949 he married Kornelia Terner, MD. Their son Istvan Javor was born in 1954. Professor Javor’s work has been linked to three Hungarian major university towns (Debrecen, Szeged, and Pecs). In his professional activity he was first pathophysiologist, then