Joseph Andrasovszky

* Jekelfalva, August 15, 1889 – † Budapest, March 7, 1943 / botanist, ampelographer ; ; He began his secondary school studies in Gölnicbánya, then continued in Igló. He completed his university studies in Budapest and Vienna. While still a university student, in 1911, he participated in an expedition to Asia Minor, and during World War I, he visited Albania on a collecting trip. He became a doctor of humanities in 1914. In 1912, he joined the Central Viticulture Experimental Station and Ampelological Institute, but also taught at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Budapest. His work is fundamental in the field of scientific systematization and processing of grape varieties. Some of his findings regarding morphological characters are still considered fundamental today. His articles were published in the Botanical Bulletins, Wine Journals, his studies in the yearbooks of the Viticulture Experimental Station and Ampelology Institute, and in the Hungarian Flora of Sándor Jávorka (Hegybánya). In 1917, he published a study in the Hungarian Botanical Bulletins on the Hungarian orchids (to the Orchid Flora of Hungary – also in German). His plant collections are primarily located in the Hungarian Museum of Natural History in Budapest, but some of them were also in the TANAP Museum in Tatra Lomnica. He discovered a new species of orchid (Ophrys) from the orchid family: Holuby orchid – Ophrys holubyana, which was named after the Slovak Lutheran priest and amateur flora researcher József Lajos Holuby (Lobonya, March 25, 1836 – Bazin, June 15, 1923); el.