József Erdős

József Erdős (9 March 1900 – 1 August 1971) was a Hungarian Roman Catholic priest, head of a teachers’ training institute and entomologist.

Biography He was the son of Sándor Erdős and Mária Kovács. Between 1910 and 1918, he studied at the gymnasium in Kalocsa. From 1918 to 1922, he studied theology in Kalocsa and was ordained as a priest on 13 August 1922 in Bácsalmás. In 1923 he served in Jánoshalma, and in 1926 in Baja as chaplain and religion teacher. In 1930 he became a religion teacher and cathedral preacher in Kalocsa.

Works The floodplain beetle fauna at the confluence of the Maros from a biological perspective (dissertation, Szeged, 1935) The Hungarian species of the genus Entedon Dalm. (Kalocsa, 1944)

Awards Imre Frivaldszky Memorial Plaque (1964)