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ARTEMY A. HORVATH 1 ARTEMY A. HORVATH - HISTORY OF HIS WORK WITH SOYBEANS AND SOYFOODS (1886-1979): EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCEBOOK Copyright © 2011 by Soyinfo Center ARTEMY A. HORVATH 2 Copyright © 2011 by Soyinfo Center ARTEMY A. HORVATH 3 ARTEMY A. HORVATH - HISTORY OF HIS WORK WITH SOYBEANS AND SOYFOODS (1886-1979): EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCEBOOK Compiled by William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi 2011 Copyright © 2011 by Soyinfo Center ARTEMY A. HORVATH 4 Copyright (c) 2011 by William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means - graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information and retrieval systems - except for use in reviews, without written permission from the publisher. Published by: Soyinfo Center P.O. Box 234 Lafayette, CA 94549-0234 USA Phone: 925-283-2991 Fax: 925-283-9091 www.soyinfocenter.com [email protected] ISBN 978-1-928914-34-1 (Artemy A. Horvath) Printed 12 May 2011 Price: Available on the Web free of charge Search engine keywords: Biography of A.A. Horvath History of A.A. Horvath Chronology of A.A. Horvath Timeline of A.A. Horvath Biography of Artemy A. Horvath History of Artemy A. Horvath Chronology of Artemy A. Horvath Timeline of Artemy A. Horvath Biography of Artemy Horvath History of Artemy Horvath Chronology of Artemy Horvath Timeline of Artemy Horvath Copyright © 2011 by Soyinfo Center ARTEMY A. HORVATH 5 Contents Page Dedication and Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................................. 6 Introduction and Brief Chronology, by William Shurtleff ....................................................................................... 7 About This Book ........................................................................................................................................................... 9 Abbreviations Used in This Book .............................................................................................................................. 10 How to Make the Best Use of This Digital Book - Search It! .................................................................................. 11 Artemy A. Horvath - History of His Work with Soy: 206 References in Chronological Order ......................... 13 Contains 62 photographs and illustrations Subject/Geographical Index by Record Numbers ................................................................................................. 107 Last Page of Index .................................................................................................................................................... 126 Copyright © 2011 by Soyinfo Center ARTEMY A. HORVATH 6 DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Japanese translation and maps: Akiko Aoyagi Shurtleff. This book is dedicated to Dr. Artemy A. Horvath Loma Linda University, Del E. Webb Memorial Library -- a pioneer in this field. (Seventh-day Adventist): Janice Little, Trish Chapman. We would also like to thank our co-workers and friends at Soyinfo Center who, since 1984, have played a major role in collecting the documents, building the library, and Part of the enjoyment of writing a book lies in meeting producing the SoyaScan database from which this book is people from around the world who share a common interest, printed: and in learning from them what is often the knowledge or skills acquired during a lifetime of devoted research or Irene Yen, Tony Jenkins, Sarah Chang, Laurie Wilmore, practice. We wish to give deepest thanks... Alice Whealey, Simon Beaven, Elinor McCoy, Patricia McKelvey, Claire Wickens, Ron Perry, Walter Lin, Dana Scott, Jeremy Longinotti, John Edelen, Alex Lerman, Lydia Of the many libraries and librarians who have been of great Lam, Gretchen Muller, Joyce Mao, Luna Oxenberg, Joelle help to our research over the years, several stand out: Bouchard, Justine Lam, Joey Shurtleff, Justin Hildebrandt, Michelle Chun, Olga Kochan, Loren Clive, Marina Li, University of California at Berkeley: John Creaser, Lois Rowyn McDonald, Casey Brodsky, Hannah Woodman, Farrell, Norma Kobzina, Ingrid Radkey. Elizabeth Hawkins, Molly Howland, Jacqueline Tao. Northern Regional Library Facility (NRLF), Richmond, Special thanks to Tom and Linda Wolfe of Berwyn Park, California: Martha Lucero, Jutta Wiemhoff, Scott Miller, Maryland. Virginia Moon, Kay Loughman. For outstanding help on this Horvath book we especially Stanford University: Molly Molloy, who has been of special thank: Tatiana Horvath Reisacher, Dr. Horvath’s daughter. help on Slavic-language documents. And: Joseph Berger and Jill Craig (Washington County Free Library, Hagerstown, Maryland), Dot Bourne (Tampa Bay, National Agricultural Library: Susan Chapman, Carol Florida; on 9 Dec. 2009 she found out where Dr. Horvath Ditzler, John Forbes, Winnifred Gelenter, Henry Gilbert, died, using the Social Security Death Index, thereby Kim Hicks, Patricia Krug, Veronica Lefebvre, Julie Mangin, enabling me to contact Tatiana), Judy Clinger (Santa Fe Ellen Mann, Josephine McDowell, Wayne Olson, Mike Public Library, New Mexico), Kurtis Meyers (Hagerstown Thompson, Tanner Wray. Aviation Museum, Hagerstown, Maryland), Edward B. Winslow (Stamford, Connecticut), Jill Yaich (Franklin Library of Congress: Ronald Jackson, Ronald Roache. County Library System, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania). Lane Medical Library at Stanford University. Finally our deepest thanks to Tony Cooper of San Ramon, California, who has kept our computers up and running Contra Costa County Central Library and Lafayette Library: since Sept. 1983. Without Tony, this series of books on the Carole Barksdale, Kristen Wick, Barbara Furgason, Sherry Web would not have been possible. Cartmill, Linda Barbero. This book, no doubt and alas, has its share of errors. These, Harvard University’s Five Botanical Libraries (especially of course, are solely the responsibility of William Shurtleff. Arnold Arboretum Library): Jill Gelmers Thomas. This bibliography and sourcebook was written with the French translation: Martine Liguori of Lafayette, California, hope that someone will write a detailed and well- for ongoing, generous, and outstanding help since the early documented history of this subject. 1980s. Copyright © 2011 by Soyinfo Center ARTEMY A. HORVATH 7 INTRODUCTION Chronology of Artemy A. Horvath of China.” In: Mongolian Expedition, Material Relating to the Report. Harbin. Vol. XI. Dr. A.A. Horvath, a Russian scientist, was one of the first . Westerners to spend a significant amount of time in East 1923: He joins the staff of the Peking Union Medical Asia studying soyfoods. In 1927 he wrote, apparently College (PUMC), established by the Rockefeller describing his father, “Horvath, fifty years ago, was the first Foundation. Working under a Rockefeller grant, he is put in to prepare soybean coffee for the market in South Russia.” charge of a new soybean research laboratory and program, Fifty years before 1927 would have been 1877, or 9 years which soon begins to generate many important publications before Artemy was born. His name in Russian: A.A. on soyfoods and nutrition. XOPBAT. In published papers he listed his position at PUMC variously as “Dep. of Medicine” (Oct. 1925), “Chemical 1886 July 6: Artemy Alexis Horvath is born to an Lab.” (April 1926), “M.D.” (Sept. 1926), and “M.D., Former aristocratic family in Russia, in the city of Kazan, the head of the Soybean Research Lab.” (at PUMC, Sept. 1931). capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan (the old Tatar While in China, Dr. Horvath took a keen and growing [Tartar / Mongol] capital), located about 450 miles east of interest in the soybean and soyfoods, which he studied first Moscow. It is presently the eighth largest city in Russia. hand for 6-8 years in Harbin and Dairen (Manchuria) and in He receives his PhD from the Univ. of Kazan. China’s capital, Peking. 1914 Sept. 21: A.A. Horvath and Maria Nicholaevna 1926 Sept.: Between September 1926 and April 1927 Kuznetsova are married in St. Barbara's Church, Kazan, Horvath writes a remarkable series of six articles on Russia. She also comes from a distinguished family. soyfoods for the Chinese Economic Monthly, published by . the Chinese Government Bureau of Economic Information. 1914-18: Horvath serves in the Russian Army during World These clearly show his great interest in and deep knowledge War I. He then teaches for 2 years at the Institute of of his subject. In 1927 these articles are collected in an 86- Agricultural Chemistry in the Maritime Provinces of page book, The Soybean as Human Food, published by the Siberia, and was an instructor in chemistry at the same bureau. This excellent book is one of the best early Vladivostok Institute of Technology. sources of information on many subjects related to soyfoods At some point he probably also earned an M.D. degree, including the early history and development of soy flour, for he gives his title as “M.D.” in eight scientific articles soymilk, soy oil, and tofu in China and Europe (especially published from Sept. 1926 on. Germany), the work of Li Yu-ying and L. Berczeller, the state of the soyfoods and soybean processing industry in 1918: During the Russian Revolution, since he had an China and Manchuria during the 1920s, early work on aristocratic ancestry, he escapes with his wife (who is soyfoods nutrition in Europe and China, plus an extensive pregnant) from Russia. They had to