Karl Kelecsényi

* Nagytapolcsány, September 16, 1854 – † Tavarnok, February 1, 1914 entomologist, notary ; ; He began his school studies in his hometown, and completed high school in Nitra and Esztergom. In Budapest, he first studied at the higher education institution that trained military officers, later known as the Ludovika Academy, and then became a law student at the University of Sciences and obtained a law degree there. After completing his studies, he became a district notary in Tavarnok. From the mid-1870s, he was engaged in the observation and collection of birds, then butterflies and beetles. As an entomologist, he studied the butterfly and beetle fauna not only of the area around Nitra and Nagytapolcsány, but also of the whole of Hungary and even the Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He reported on the Bosnian collecting expedition in his study "My Beetle Journey to Bosnia and Herzegovina / Coleopterologische Reise nach Bosnien", which was published in the Entomological Journal in 1900. He was in contact with many foreign researchers and discovered several new species of beetles and moths. He usually published his writings in the Entomological Journal. His collection of moths and beetles contained about 100,000 individuals. ; ; His main works: ; The beetle and moth fauna of the area around Nagy-Tapolcsány in Nitra County, 1896.