Kalman Kertesz

* Eperjes, January 2, 1867 – † Budapest, December 28, 1922 / zoologist, entomologist, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He first studied medicine at the University of Budapest, then became a student of the Faculty of Humanities and obtained his doctorate in 1894. In the meantime, he worked as an intern at the University Institute of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy led by Tivadar Margó (1816–1896). From 1896, he was a member of the zoological collection of the Hungarian National Museum, and later served as its director. He primarily dealt with invertebrates, more specifically rotifers, and mainly dipterans. He participated in several collecting trips in Central and Western Europe, significantly expanding the dipteran collection of the Hungarian National Museum. However, most of this was lost during the fire of 1956. He described several genera and species of flies, and compiled a fly and mosquito catalogue. He summarized the world's known dipteran species in ten volumes, seven volumes were published in print between 1902 and 1910, while the other three were not printed due to lack of funds. Four genera and several species bear his name. In 1910, he was one of the founders of the Hungarian Entomological Society. ; ; His main works: ; The rotatory fauna of the Budapest area, 1894, ; Catalogus Dipterorum hucusque descriptorum I–VII., 1902–1910, ; A systematic description of the mosquito species of Hungary, 1904, ; The wingless and rudimentary winged flies of Hungary, 1910.