Gusztav Szelényi

* Késmárk, September 5, 1904 – † Budapest, October 14, 1982 / zoologist, entomologist, honorary university professor ; ; son of Ödön Szelényi, literary historian, philosopher, and private university tutor. He spent his childhood in his hometown and in Bratislava. He graduated from the Mezőtúr Gymnasium in 1922. From 1923 to 1927, he studied biology, primarily zoology, at the Budapest University of Science and Technology. In 1927, he earned a teaching degree and in 1930, a doctoral degree from the Tisza István University of Science and Technology in Debrecen. Between 1926 and 1968, he worked at the Entomology Station (later: Plant Protection Research Institute), and from 1942, he was its head of department. He also gave university lectures: in 1940 he became a private tutor at the University of Agricultural Sciences, and from 1953 he was a lecturer in plant protection entomology at the ELTE in Budapest. He retired in 1968, but continued to work as an employee of the Museum of Natural History. From 1970 he taught plant protection zoology as a professor at the József Attila University of Szeged. His research field was primarily the study of the systematics and ecology of pests of fodder and oil crops (alfalfa, poppy, etc.), scale insects of fruit trees, and hymenopteran insects. His son Iván Szelényi (Budapest, April 17, 1938 –) is a sociologist, university professor, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was expelled from Hungary in 1975 for illegally sending a manuscript abroad. He currently lives in the USA.