Gyula Klein

* Prešov, 5 May 1844 – † Budapest, 21 November 1915 / botanist, mycologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He completed his high school studies in Levoča, and between 1864 and 1867 he attended lectures on natural sciences, mainly botany, at the University of Vienna. As a state scholarship holder, he conducted microscopic plant histological examinations at the Technical College in Zurich in 1867–1868, and at the University of Munich in 1868–1869 under the guidance of the distinguished botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli. In 1869–1870 he was an assistant teacher at a gymnasium in Buda, and in 1870 he was appointed as an assistant teacher at the Department of Botany at the Royal Joseph Technical University in Buda. He taught here for a quarter of a century, from 1871 as a private teacher, from 1872 as a public full-time teacher. He was also dean of the general and chemical engineering faculties four times. As a botanist, he primarily dealt with colonizing plants, algae and fungi, as well as plant anatomy, general cell and histology, and microbiology. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member in 1871, and a full member in 1882. ; ; His main works: ; The development and shapes of the mushroom Pilobolus, 1871, ; On the crystalloids of some Floridea, 1871, ; On insectivorous plants, 1876, ; On the color of flowers, 1880, ; On the borderland of the animal and plant kingdoms, 1882, ; The aspirations of modern botany, 1889, ; On some anomalies of plant leaves, 1892; On the structure of the cruciferous flower on a dissection basis, 1894.