Nyárady Erasmus Gyula

* Nyárádtő, April 7, 1881 – † Budapest, June 10, 1966 / botanist, teacher at the Keszmárk Lyceum, member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences ; ; He started high school in Marosvásárhely, then studied as a servant at the Teacher Training Institute in Kolozsvár. He obtained a teaching certificate in natural history and geography at the Teacher Training College in Budapest in 1904. Since he collected plants in the Tatra Mountains as a student, he was appointed a high school teacher in Keszmárk at his request and taught there between 1904 and 1911. During these years, he studied the flora of the Tatra Mountains and the Spisség, reporting on his results in the Hungarian Botanical Journals. He also contributed as a co-author to the textbook Nature History published in Keszmárk. Between 1911 and 1922 he was a high school teacher in Marosvásárhely. In 1914 he published his work, The definitive book of spring and early summer plants of Marosvásárhely and its surroundings, and continued his floristic research despite the wartime circumstances. In 1922 he moved to Cluj-Napoca, where he was the museum keeper of the botanical garden until his retirement in 1942. During his years in Cluj-Napoca, he published countless articles in Romanian, Swiss and German journals, as well as in Hungarian newspapers in Transylvania, and it was at this time that he also launched the Flora Romaniae Exsiccata series. In 1937, he published his monograph A Torda-hasadék in both Hungarian and Romanian under his own publishing house. Between 1940 and 1944, he published his perhaps most important work, The Flora of Cluj-Napoca and its surroundings, in nine booklets. In 1948, he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences and commissioned to edit a series of books presenting the flora of Romania. He wrote more than half of the titles and made all the drawings. In 1958, he published a work presenting the flora of the Retezat Mountains in Romanian. He discovered two new plant genera (Triplopetalum, Pietrosia – today: Andryla), as well as 119 new species and numerous subspecies and varieties, and 25 taxa were named after him. He is buried in the Házsongárd Cemetery in Cluj-Napoca. ; ; His main works: ; ; New plants in the flora of the High Tatras and their immediate surroundings, 1909, ; On the vegetation of waters and water-rich soils in Harghita, 1929, ; Flora RSR I-XIII., 1958, Flora si vegetatia Muntilor Retezat, 1958.