Baron Ferenc Ocskay

* Ocskó, 1775 – † Sopron, August 6, 1851 / landowner, naturalist ; ; He graduated from the Bratislava Academy in 1793. He prepared for a military career, but after the Rhine campaign he resigned due to an eye disease that threatened blindness. He retired to his estates, first in Vágbori, then between 1806 and 1821 in Ocskó, and finally in Sopron until his death. He primarily engaged in collecting animals, plants and minerals. He prepared and stuffed the collected mammals and birds himself. He donated the collection to the Hungarian Museum of Natural History in 1829. After that, he went on several collecting trips to Italy, Croatia and Slavonia, where he mainly collected insects. He described some new representatives of the orthopteran insects. Nummi Hungariae (Buda, 1841) In his work he presented the Hungarian pieces of his coin and coin collection. He also published an article in the Archives of Science in 1836 about the Roman inscriptions in Sopron. He was a member of the Academia Leopoldina.