Hungarian Gastroenterological Society / Magyar Gasztroenterologiai Tarsasag

Jenő Rosenthal is the first gastroenterologist monograph ("The Disease and Cure of Digestive Diseases, Budapest 1938)", in which the lecturer Sándor Korányi praised the clarity, intelligibility and especially excellent documentation of his book in his preface. László Friedrich is the pioneering clinician of functional gastric diagnostics and endoscopy; his first gastroscopic monograph is his name. György Szemző, in his critical spirit, has acquired a name through his gastro-sculptural work. Finally, Géza Hetényi, the father of Hungarian gastroenterology, whose interest in the 30-40s turned to gastroenterology, although it is undisputed that his school-building work was only developed after 1947.

The organizational life of Hungarian gastroenterology started after 1945. There is some evidence that a gastroenterological working group within the Healthcare Union's Internal Medicine Group tried to operate under the leadership of László Friedrich, but the first official manifestation of separation could be made in the 1950s when the Ministry of Health set up a gastroenterology section within the Health Science Council. This was a very limited one, and in the chair of Géza Hetényi, invited people in the ministry were commissioned by nationwide programs (eg ulcus program).