Nandor Filarszky

* Késmárk, October 18, 1858 – † Budapest, June 23, 1941 / botanist, museologist, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1932) ; ; He began his studies in his hometown, where he also graduated from high school. At the University of Budapest, he earned a teaching degree in natural history and geography in 1883, and a doctorate in humanities in 1884. From 1885, he was an assistant professor of flora research to Lajos Jurányi (1837–1897), and his deputy in 1896–1897. In 1896, he obtained a private teaching qualification in algology and the morphology of flowering plants, and from 1897, he was a teacher at the Eötvös College. From 1899 he was the head of the Botanical Garden of the Hungarian National Museum, from 1901 he was its director, and from 1919 he was its director. In this capacity he did a lot for the creation of new collections (e.g. the tree trunk, lichen and mushroom collection). From 1922 he was an extraordinary professor at the University of Budapest. He significantly developed the Botanical Garden, and its professional arrangement is also attributed to him. His interesting theory on separation cell nucleation did not find a response. He primarily dealt with the cytology of algae and the morphology of plants. He studied the chandelier algae (Characeae) in depth. He also researched other groups of algae and processed the algae collections of the Adriatic expedition, and studied the algae of the Pieniny and the Balkans. Plant Systematics and General Botany remained in manuscript. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member in 1917 and a full member in 1932. He became an honorary member in 1940. His work, titled Charafélék monografiája, completed in 1941, which was approximately 1000 pages long, written in small pearly letters and beautifully illustrated, unfortunately also remained in manuscript, and only one study was published. It includes 11 species discovered by Nándor Filarszky. ; ; His main works: ; The Charafélék, with special regard to the Hungarian species, 1893, ; The Pieninen and its flora, 1898, ; Plant morphology, 1911, ; The theory of separation cell nucleation and its role in the development and systematization of plants, 1920.