Tibor Blattny

* Košice, February 22, 1883 – † Bánya Beszterce, December 12, 1969 / forest engineer, botanist ; ; He spent his childhood in Levoča, where his father was an engineer of the Tarcafő forests. He completed his secondary school studies there in 1900. Due to financial reasons, he did not study in Budapest, but at the Mining and Forestry Academy in Bánya Selmec, where he was able to study as a state scholarship holder. He completed his studies in 1903, and after a two-year internship, he took the state examination in 1905 and obtained a forest engineer's diploma. Gradually moving up the professional ladder between 1905 and 1919, he worked in various positions as a forest engineer and forest advisor. At the request of Lajos Fekete, the Minister of Agriculture allowed Blattny to participate as a collaborator in a large-scale collection of materials, as a result of which the two-volume work entitled Forestry significance trees and shrubs in the territory of the Hungarian state was published in Selmecbánya in 1913–1915. He fought in World War I between 1914–1917, and after his demobilization he worked in state service again, but after 1919 he failed to obtain the position of head of department in the Ministry of Agriculture in Budapest that he had been offered, so he returned to his homeland and entered the service of the Czechoslovak state forestry. Between 1922–1929 he was deputy director in Zsarnóca, and between 1930–1937 in Liptóújvár with the rank of chief forest councilor. He worked in Moravia in 1937–1938, then after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia he moved to Bratislava and worked as the Deputy Director General of the Slovak State Forestry until 30 April 1945, when he retired. After that, he settled in Rimaszombat and primarily dealt with forestry history as the head of the district archive. At the beginning of his career, many of his works were published in the Forestry Journals, Botanical Publications, Hungarian Botanical Journals, Forestry Journals, Az Erdő and Magyar Erdész. In addition to his office work, he was also interested in botany and nature conservation. He was laid to rest in the “Frauenberg” cemetery in Selmecbánya. His wife was Gizella Faller, the granddaughter of Gusztáv Faller and the daughter of Károly Faller.