Erasmus Julius Nyárády (7 April 1881 - 10 June 1966) was a

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n botanist of Hungarian ethnicity. In the Hungarian style his name appears as Nyárády Erazmus Gyula. He was born in

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, in a town then called in hu, Nyárádtő, in ro, Nirașteu, now known as

Ungheni, Mureș Ungheni ( hu, Nyárádtő ; german: Nyaradfluß) is a town in Mureș County, in Transylvania, Romania. Until 1925 its Romanian name was ''Nirașteu''. Six villages are administered by the town: * Cerghid (''Nagycserged'') * Cerghizel (''Kiscserg ...

Career

After secondary school education in

Târgu Mureș Târgu Mureș (, ; hu, Marosvásárhely ) is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the 16th largest Romanian city, with 134,290 inhabitants as of the 2011 census. It lies on the Mureș River, the ...

( hu, Marosvásárhely), he attended the Teacher Training Institute in Cluj-Napoca ( hu, Kolozsvár, german: Klausenburg) (1900). He then studied at the Natural History Teachers' College in

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, graduating from the Faculty of Geography in 1904. He spent the next seven years teaching in the gymnasium of

Kežmarok Kežmarok (german: Kesmark or ; hu, Késmárk, yi, קעזמאַרק, Kezmark, pl, Kieżmark) is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia (population 16,000), on the Poprad River. Prior to World War I, it was in Szepes county in the ...

( hu, Késmárk), then in 1911 moved back to Târgu Mureș. Meanwhile, he had begun to publish botanical papers, and in 1922 he was invited by the Romanian botanist Alexandru Borza to be curator of the Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden, with a remit to expand the herbarium. Between 1940 and 1944 together with

Rezső Soó Károly Rezső Soó von Bere (1 August 1903, Székelyudvarhely (now Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania) – 10 February 1980, Budapest) was a Hungarian botanist and professor at the University of Budapest. He is best known for his work on: *'' Dacty ...

he published his 9-volume ''Kolozsvár és környékének flórája'' (Flora of Cluj and its environment). In 1942 he nominally retired, but did not stop his work. In 1948, the

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elected him as a full member, and appointed him as member of the editorial board of the monumental '' Flora Reipublicae Socialisticae România'', under the management of Traian Săvulescu, Editor in chief. He was volume coordinator for volumes VIII-XI, after the death of Săvulescu. In 1953 he was awarded the Romanian People's Republic State Prize. He died in Budapest, and is buried in Cluj-Napoca (

) in the Házsongárdi Cemetery.

Some publications

* ''Vizek és vízben bővelkedő talajok növényzetéről a Hargitában'', 1929 * ''Marosvásárhely és környékén élő tavaszi és nyáreleji növények meghatározó könyve'', Marosvásárhely, 1937 * ''A tordai hasadék monografikus ismertetése'', Erdélyi Nemzeti Múzeum Növénytára, Kolozsvár, 1940-1944 * ''Kolozsvár és környékének flórája'' I-IX. füzet, B., Soó Rezső közreműködésével, Kolozsvár, 1941-1944 * ''Flora of Romania (Flora Reipublicae Socialisticae România)'' vol. I-XIII, Academia Republicii Socialiste România,

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, 1952-1976 * ''Flora şi vegetaţia Munţilor Retezat'', Academia Republicii Populare Române, 1958 * ''Szováta fürdő és környékének monográfiája'' (manuscript)

Taxa named after him

* (

Brassicaceae Brassicaceae () or (the older) Cruciferae () is a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family. Most are herbaceous plants, while some are shrubs. The leav ...

) ''

Alyssum ''Alyssum'' is a genus of over a hundred species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean region. The genus comprises annual and perenni ...

nyaradyi'' Bornm. & Gauba * ( Poaceae) ''

Koeleria ''Koeleria'' is a common and widespread genus of plants in the grass family, found on all continents except Antarctica and on various oceanic islands. It includes species known generally as Junegrasses. The genus was named after German botanist ...

nyaradyi'' Ujhelyi * (

Salicaceae The Salicaceae is the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') included the willows, poplar, aspen, and cottonwoods. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly ...

) ''

Salix Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist s ...

nyaradyi'' Woł.in Sched. Fl. Hungar. Exsicc. vii. 23 hybr. 1925 (IK)

Sources

*Váczy, C. 1967. ''Erasmus Julius Nyárády, 1881-1966''. Taxon 16 ( 5): 425-430

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nyarady, Erasmus Julius 1881 births 1966 deaths People from Mureș County Romanian people of Hungarian descent Titular members of the Romanian Academy 20th-century Hungarian botanists Romanian botanists Recipients of the Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic Members of the Romanian Academy of Sciences