Nandor Illés

* Egeg–Királyfiapuszta, May 15, 1836 – † Palánka, May 2, 1907 / forester, botanist ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Selmecbánya and Rozsnyó, and obtained a forester’s diploma from the Selmecbánya Mining and Forestry Academy in 1864. He began his practical service on the Coburg forest estate. Even before obtaining his diploma, he became a colleague of the Forestry Journal, which initiated and fostered Hungarian specialist literature. In 1868–1873, he taught botany, silviculture, industrial surgery and hunting as an assistant teacher at the forestry academy. He was the first to teach these subjects in Hungarian. He also embraced the cause of the botanical garden, which was essential for the successful teaching of forest botany. In 1870, he was sent to Heidelberg to continue his botanical studies. ; After five years, he left the academy and took a job as a forester on the estate of György Károlyi in Nyírség. In 1881, he became the head of the forest inspectorate department of the Ministry of Agriculture in Budapest. He worked there until his retirement in 1891. During this period, he wrote his work on the binding of quicksand, as well as his studies on the acacia scale that had appeared throughout the country. His last major work, The Forester, a textbook written for forest guard vocational schools, was published in 1907, the year of his death.