John Tuzson

* Szászcsanád, 10 May 1870 – † Budapest, 18 December 1943 / botanist, university teacher, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1909) ; ; In 1887–1890 he was a student at the Mining and Forestry Academy in Selmecbánya, in 1894–1895 he was an assistant professor, then after studying in various European countries he became an assistant professor there in 1901–1903. In 1904 he became a private teacher at the Budapest University of Technology, between 1905–1940 he was a professor at the University of Science, and from 1928 he was also the director of the university's Botanical Garden. He dealt with the histology, mycology and pathology of woody plants, and later with the investigation of plant systematics, plant geography and paleobotany. He was the first to describe the vegetation of the Bátorliget primeval bog. His works on the extinct plants of Hungary are significant. In 1932 he founded the journal Index Horti Botanici Universitatis Budapestiensis. He published 22 volumes from the series Plants of the Hungarian Great Plain (exsiccata). ; ; His main works: ; The decay and conservation of beech wood, 1904, ; Regular botany I., 1911, ; Monograph of the fossil trees of Lake Balaton, 1911.