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József Gyula Hubertus Szent-Ivány

1910 – 1988

Hungarian entomologist

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Lived 1910 – 1988 (aged 77). József Gyula Hubertus Szent-Ivány was a Hungarian entomologist and museologist.

József Gyula Hubertus Szent-Ivány (3 November 1910 – 8 June 1988) was a Hungarian entomologist who specialized in the Lepidoptera. He worked as a curator of the Hungarian National Museum from 1936 to 1945 before emigrating to Australia. He founded the journal Fragmenta Faunistica Hungarica which was edited by Soós Árpád until 1948 when it was renamed as Folia entomologica hungarica.

Szent-Ivány was born in Budapest matriculating in Rimaszombat followed by studies in Vienna, Austria before returning to Budapest. He obtained a doctorate from the Royal Hungarian University in 1936. He used the name Gyula Hubertus since his father József Szent-Ivány (1894–1941) came from a noble land-owning class and was a political leader in Czechoslovakia. He was married to Mária née Lakatos (1919–2012) who also worked in the museum and was an illustrator and specimen preparator. His father-in-law, Géza Lakatos (1890–1967), was in the Hungarian Army and later became Prime Minister of Hungary. During the war he transferred the collections at his own expense from Budapest to Tihany. He moved to western Europe when the Russians invaded Hungary and in the summer of 1950 he decided to emigrate to Australia. He set up a research station in Konedobu in eastern Papua New Guinea in 1954 and worked on rearing and protection of birdwing butterflies, especially Ornithoptera meridionalis which was valuable among collectors. His wife moved to Australia in 1956 along with a daughter. Maria took an interest in Australian botany, illustrating a book on Solanum. He was involved in the search for the grave of Sámuel Fenichel at Stephansort in the 1970s. He was made a Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1988, a few days before his death in Adelaide. He bequeathed his library and collections to the Hungarian Museum of Natural History in Budapest.

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Member of the Order of Australia
Also known as
Joseph Julius Hubert Szent-Ivany, Joseph J. H. Szent-Ivány, J. J. H. Szent-Ivany

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Hungarian entomologist

When was József Gyula Hubertus Szent-Ivány born?

József Gyula Hubertus Szent-Ivány was born on 10 November 1910 in Budapest.

When did József Gyula Hubertus Szent-Ivány die?

József Gyula Hubertus Szent-Ivány died on 8 June 1988 in Adelaide.

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József Gyula Hubertus Szent-Ivány was an entomologist and museologist.

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József Gyula Hubertus Szent-Ivány was Hungarian.

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