Jósef Antall, Historian, Medical Historian, Prime Minister (8 April 1932–12 December 1993)

Abstract

ln April 8th 1992 all colleagues, former colleagues of the Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum, Library and Archives were gathering for a private meeting. They wanted to greet the former director of the institute, Dr. lozsef Antall at his вот birthday. The building was droned with ardent enthusiasm, since they cooked and baked, and made presents for the former colleague, director, and not least for the friend who always helped those who were in trouble.The multilingual museum guides, who once had badly suffered but were redressed in the Museum, placed their own-made sweet and salty pastries and cookies on the table. A Polish colleague offered a traditional beetroot soup. The librarians, museologists, archivists together with the dexterous restorer-team produced a giant photo album in which they collected the pictures that presented Antall's 26 years in the institute. Everyone stood in excitement, and wrote with a pen on the black sheets below the photos the dates of bygone events. Sometimes he and sometimes others recalled the data of the photos.