Victor Greschik

* Levoca, March 29, 1862 – † Levoca, August 16/17, 1946. / botanist, local historian, ; teacher ; ; He began his school studies in his hometown and graduated from the local gymnasium. He obtained his teaching certificate at the Szepesle Teacher Training College. He was a teacher in Késmárk between 1882 and 1887, a teacher at the elementary school in Levoca from 1887, and the director of the institution from 1901 until his retirement in 1914. He was a thorough expert on the flora of the Szepesgég and the Tatra Mountains and a highly regarded researcher. He primarily dealt with lower plants: lichens and mosses, later specializing in fungi, but he also published several papers on higher plants. His writings appeared in Hungarian and foreign newspapers in Hungarian, German, and French, and after the formation of Czechoslovakia he also published some studies in Slovak. The majority of his herbarium, consisting of more than 25 thousand copies and bound in 184 bundles, containing plants collected in Slovakia, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine, is currently kept in the herbarium of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava, but smaller bundles have also been given to other Slovak museums and foreign researchers. Several plant and mushroom species were named after him. ; In addition to flora research, he was also involved in ethnobotany (collecting folk plant names) and pomology. He organized fruit exhibitions in Levoča several times. In addition, he published local history studies about the Spiš region and Levoča, and a tourist guide introducing monuments and natural attractions (Führer zu den Kunstschätzen und Sehenwürdigkeiten der Stadt Levoča-Leutschau, 1931). Between 1901 and 1910, he was the editor of the Levoča magazine Zipser Bote. The manuscript of his work on the flora of his hometown (Flora von Leutschau, 1932) and part of his 8,000-volume specialist library are kept at the Department of Botany of the Comenius University in Bratislava. Dezső Kováts, a Hungarian flora researcher, is his grandson. ; ; His main works: ; Új datáts szépes vármegye gombavirányahoj, 1888, ; Zipser deutsche volkstümliche Pflanzennamens, 1889, ; De fungis esculentis et venenosis. Oenipontinum, 1892, ; Mycotheca-, Bryotheca- et Lichenotheca carpatica (both in Hungarian and German), 1894, ; Die Trüffeln der High Tatras, 1898, ; Alt Levotschau in historischen Darstellungen (manuscript), 1932.