Lévy Lajos életrajza
Lajos Lévy (Budapest, 1875 - London, April 7, 1961) was not a practising psychoanalyst, nevertheless, he played an important role in the history of Hungarian psychoanalysis. He studied medicine at the universities of Budapest, Vienna and Tübingen. After graduating, he was engaged in Heidelberg for a few years. Returning home, he became a student and friend of Béla Székács at Rókus Hospital, served for a while for the Worker's Insurance Institute then he was appointed to the chief internist of Mária Valéria Military Hospital and Zita Military Hospital. Since 1928 he was employed by the most developed Hungarian health facility of that age, the Jewish Hospital, where he served first as a chief physician, later on however he headed the whole institute. While having recognised the importance of electrocardiography, he was among the first physicians who arranged an electrocardiographic laboratory in Hungary. He was the editor of the progressive medical weekly Gyógyászat, on pages of which he propagated successfully the psychoanalysis and psychosomatics. After his retirement (1945) he suffered from depression. Later on, he emigrated to the UK to his brother and sister. His 6000-volume library was nationalised. He died in London from heart disease. This study is the ever published and most detailed biography of Lajos Lévy.