Nékám, lajos

(¤ 4.6.1868, † 1957) Dermatologist. Born in Budapest, Nekam studied medicine in Budapest and received his license to practice medicine in 1889. He received his dermatological training in Budapest, with Kaposi, Neumann and Stricker in Vienna, with Lesser and Virchow in Berlin and in Paris with Brocq, Fournier and Hallopeau. In 1905 he was appointed to the chair of the dermatological clinic of the University of Budapest as successor to Erno Schwimmer. Nekam had a major influence on the history of dermatology in his country. He had numerous students including Stephan Rothman. His field(s) of research were: bacteriology, venereology, neuropathology. His successor was his student F. Földvári in 1949, after a commissariat between 1945-1949 by Lajos Szodary.