{"id":16340,"date":"2019-03-26T11:45:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T10:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/?p=16340"},"modified":"2019-03-26T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T10:46:38","slug":"ignac-semmelweis-awarded-posthumous-honorary-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2019\/03\/ignac-semmelweis-awarded-posthumous-honorary-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis awarded posthumous honorary citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The local government of J\u00f3zsefv\u00e1ros, the 8th district of Budapest, has awarded a posthumous honorary citizenship to Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis. The recognition was accepted by Dr. Tivadar H\u00fcttl, a descendant of Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis and a senior lecturer at the university\u2019s V\u00e1rosmajor Heart and Vascular Center, at an award ceremony held by the local government in the Ur\u00e1nia National Film Theater.<\/p>\n

Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis is one of the greatest figures in the history of Hungarian medical science. Hungary\u2019s largest medical university and health care institution, Semmelweis University, is named after him, with most of the university\u2019s clinics located in J\u00f3zsefv\u00e1ros, the laudation in his honor mentioned, among others. The appreciation of Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis also recalled that he was named head physician of the R\u00f3kus Hospital in J\u00f3zsefv\u00e1ros in 1851, and on July 18, 1855 he became a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pest. He was the director of the obstetrics department for ten years, which was the predecessor of the Baross utca division of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.<\/p>\n\r\n [slb_exclude]\r\n

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The general assembly of the local government of J\u00f3zsefv\u00e1ros decided on awarding the posthumous honorary citizenship to Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis. The recognition and the accompanying honorary bell was accepted by Dr. Tivadar H\u00fcttl, a descendant of Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis and a senior lecturer at the university\u2019s V\u00e1rosmajor Heart and Vascular Center, from Member of Parliament Dr. M\u00e1t\u00e9 Kocsis and district mayor Dr. Botond S\u00e1ra, at an award ceremony held by the local government in the Ur\u00e1nia National Film Theater. Dr. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Rosivall, the head of the Semmelweis Memorial Committee, announced that Dr. Tivadar H\u00fcttl has offered to donate the bell to the memorial committee, and plans are to hold an exhibition at a later date where it will be available for the public to view.<\/p>\n

The so-called J\u00f3zsef Day awards gala was held by the local government of J\u00f3zsefv\u00e1ros, where the district awards, including the honorary citizenships approved by the general assembly, were handed out in an official ceremony.<\/p>\n

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\nTranslation: Tam\u00e1s Deme
\nPhoto: Zolt\u00e1n Adri\u00e1n; \u00c1kos V\u00e1nyi \u2013 J\u00f3zsefv\u00e1ros \u00fajs\u00e1g<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The recognition was accepted by Dr. Tivadar H\u00fcttl, a descendant of Semmelweis and a senior lecturer at the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101535,"featured_media":16338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-semmelweis-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16343,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16340\/revisions\/16343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}