(Pécs, 13 October 1863 – Budapest, 17 November 1937)

Medical doctor, pathologist, professor, academy member

He was the son of Béla Buday and Tekla Kelemen, one of 10 children. Buday graduated in 1886 from the University of Medicine, Budapest. He worked in the Institute of Pathology, Budapest from 1885, and became operating doctor at the surgery department in 1890. After a year-long study trip (1894-95), he was made assistant professor of pathology at the University of Kolozsvár, private professor in 1896, and in the same year public professor of the same university.

From 1913 to 1934, until his retirement, he was the public named professor of the University of Medicine, Budapest, and served as head of the 1st Institute of Pathology. In 1913 he became corresponding member, and later, in 1931 a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

He conducted significant research on osteogenesis imperfecta, on gangrenous inflammation of the oral cavity and the lung, as well as on the pathology of lymphogranulomatosis and tuberculosis. He was the first to table the finding that in the development of tuberculosis, external reinfection may lead to a flaring of the smoldering inner foci. Professor Buday was also the first to provide a detailed description of one of the infectious agents causing wound infections. The agent was later named after him.

Another prominent member of the family was his brother, László Buday (1873-1925), a statistician, professor, university department head, plus the founder and first chair of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, while also a member of the International Statistical Institute. László Buday also worked as assistant-editor of the weekly magazine Ország-Világ, and as an editor of Közgazdasági Szemle (a refereed journal of economics). He was also a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Source: Wikipedia