Endre Dudich

* Nagysalló, March 20, 1895 – † Budapest, February 5, 1971 / zoologist, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1942) ; ; His father was a district physician who was also interested in zoology. This also influenced his son, who graduated from high school in Esztergom. In 1913–1915, and after nearly four years of front-line service, in 1919–1920 he studied as a member of the Eötvös College at the University of Science and Technology in Budapest, where he obtained a teaching degree in natural history and geography in 1920, and then a doctorate in humanities at the University of Science and Technology in 1922. Between 1919–1934 he was an employee of the Zoological Museum of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and later a museum keeper. Between 1925 and 1934 he was a lecturer in the subject area of “arthropod systematics” at the University of Szeged. In July 1934 he was appointed a public extraordinary professor at the Budapest University of Science and Technology, in 1936 he was appointed a professor and was entrusted with the organization of the Institute of Zoological Systematics. In the meantime, as a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship holder, he conducted research at the Naples Zoological Station in 1930 and 1937. Between 1950 and 1967 he was the head of the Department of Zoological Systematics at ELTE, and at the same time from 1958 until his death he was the head of the Danube Research Station in Alsógöd, and from 1959 he was the head of the Cave Biology Laboratory in Aggtelek. ; This was the fourth underground cave biology laboratory in the world. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member in 1932 and a full member in 1942. However, in 1949 he was "downgraded" to a consulting member and only regained his full membership in 1964. He began his scientific career as a university student. At first, he dealt with the morphology and systematics of arthropods. ; He primarily researched beetles and crustaceans, examined the chirping organs of insects, but also dealt with biocoenotics, zoogeography, hydrobiology and cave biology. He was the first in Hungary to apply mathematical methods to the variational study of insects. He is credited with the polarization study of the calcareous shell of crustaceans, the initiation of modern cave biology research in Hungary, the establishment of domestic animal associology, faunal research using modern scientific methods, the introduction of modern examination methods of zoogeography and taxonomy, and the production biological study of forest soil arthropods. He used mineralogical methods in the zoological classification of fossils. A subgenus, about 40 animal species, 5 subspecies, and 1 plant species were named after him, while he used personal names for only five of the 1 family, 2 genera, 2 subgenus, 28 species, and 5 subspecies that he recognized, established, and described. He was the editor or editor-in-chief of several Hungarian scientific journals, book series, and yearbooks (Acta Zoologica, Fauna Hungariae, Karst and Cave Exploration, etc.). He was a board member or honorary member of several domestic and foreign scientific societies. He received the Kossuth Prize in 1957. His son, Endre Dudich Jr. (Budapest, January 27, 1934 –) is a geologist and bauxite chemist, a university professor, who passed a language exam in ten languages and studied another 17 languages at various levels. ; ; His main works: ; Classification of Hungarian mammals and their external insect parasites (with Gyula Éhik), 1924, ; Systematic and biological studies on the Phronima species of the Gulf of Naples, 1926, ; Systematic zoology. III. Arthropods, 1927, ; New crab species in the fauna of Hungary, 1927, ; The limestone deposits of the crustacean shell in polarized light, 1929, ; The food sources of the fauna of the Aggtelek cave, 1930, ; The history and state of biological research of the Aggtelek stalactite cave “Baradla” in Hungary, 1930, ; Systematic and biological studies on the limestone deposits of the crustacean shell in polarized light, 1931, ; On the biological research of caves, 1931, ; Biology of the Aggtelek dripstone cave "Baradla" in Hungary, 1932, ; The Aggtelek dripstone cave and its surroundings (with Károllyal Lendvai), 1932, ; Living space”, habitat, community, 1939, ; Basics of the arachnid fauna (Arachnoidae) of Bars County (with Gábor Kolosváry, László Szalay), 1940, ; Animal system and zoogeography of terrestrial habitats (In: Animal and its life II.), 1942, ; Animal collection (co-author), 1949, ; Animal classification (co-author), 1950, ; Production biological investigation of forest soil arthropods (with János Balogh and Imré Loksa), 1952, ; Zoogeography I-II., 1951–1952, ; Cave biology and its problems, 1959, ; Application of the principle of biological actualism to fossil bryozoans, 1962, ; Zoological systematics (with Imré Loksa), 1969 (5th edition: 1981).