Imre Frivaldszky
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* Bacskó, February 6, 1799 – † Jobbágyi, October 19, 1870 / naturalist, zoologist, botanist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He began his high school studies in Sárospatak, then continued in Eger and graduated in Košice. At the age of 15 he met Pál Kitaibel (Nagymarton, February 3, 1757 – † Pest, December 13, 1817), the distinguished botanist and chemist, with whom he took part in an excursion to Hegyalja and at that time he liked natural sciences. At the University of Pest, where he was greatly influenced by the versatile professor, János Konstantin Schuster (Pécs, May 7, 1777 – † Pest, May 19, 1838), he was ordained a doctor of medicine in 1821. After that, he was an employee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for 30 years until his retirement in 1851. At the beginning of his career, he was primarily interested in botany, but later switched to zoology. He gained international fame as a descriptive zoologist, mainly dealing with invertebrates: insects and snails. With his cousin, zoologist János Frivaldszky (1822–1895) (Rajec), he made several major trips to the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor to study the natural conditions of the region and collect various animal and plant species. He also visited southern Italy. He also researched the fauna of caves. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member in 1833 and a full member in 1838. Frivaldszky told Mór Jókai about the island in the Danube that appears in the writer's novel The Golden Man. ; ; His main works: ; Dissertatio inauguralis medica sistensmonographiam serpentum Hungariae, 1823., ; Catalogus insectorum Emerici Frivaldszky, 1834., ; New communications on his Balkan natural science journey, 1838, ; The coals of Hungary, from a naturalistic and topographic perspective, 1842, ; Proposal for the flourishing of natural sciences in our country, 1844, ; Essay on the wandering locust, from a naturalistic and status-economic perspective, 1848., ; Entomological findings, 1862, ; Characteristic data on the fauna of Hungary, 1870.