Baron Gábor Andreánszky de Liptószentandrás (August 1, 1895 – November 20, 1967) was a
Hungarian botanist,
paleobotanist
Paleobotany, which is also spelled as palaeobotany, is the branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (paleogeogr ...
and explorer. He was the son of politician and MP
Gábor Andreánszky (1848-1908).
Career
In 1929 he was appointed professor of botany, and in 1942 ordinary professor. That same year, he was named as chief botanist in the
Hungarian National Museum
The Hungarian National Museum ( hu, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum) was founded in 1802 and is the national museum for the history, art, and archaeology of Hungary, including areas not within Hungary's modern borders, such as Transylvania; it is not to ...
(now
Museum of Natural History in Hungary). That position was held until 1945, when he became head of the Department of Botany at the
University of Budapest
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, until 1952. Then, for political reasons (and probably his noble origin) he was banned.
He made several expeditions to the
Balkan Peninsula,
Corsica,
Morocco
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,
Tunisia
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Mauritania. He pioneered Paleobotany of Cenozoic, especially Miocene, flora.
He is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Moroccan lizard, ''
Atlantolacerta andreanskyi
The Atlas dwarf lizard (''Atlantolacerta andreanskyi''), commonly known as Andreansky's lizard, is the only species in the genus Atlantolacerta, in the wall lizard family, Lacertidae. The species is indigenous to north-western Africa."''Atlant ...
''.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Andreánszky, p. 9)]
Publications
*''Plantae ia Africa Boreali lectae II–III.'' Pécs: Dunántúl. 1937–1941.
*''Az éghajlat megváltozásának hatása a növényzetre.'' Budapest: Stephaneum. 1939.
*''Adatok Tunisz és Kelet-Algéria növényföldrajzához.'' Budapest: Bethlen Gábor. 1939.
*''Száras növények.'' Budapest: Egyetemi ny. 1941.
*''A növények elterjedése.'' Budapest: Egyetemi ny. 1941.
*''A Földközi-tengervidék növényzetének biológiai spektrumáról.'' Budapest: Szent István Akadémia. 1941.
*''Ősnövénytan.'' Budapest: Akadémiai. 1954.
*''Die Flora der sarmatischen Stufe in Ungarn: Die paläoökologischen und zönologischen Beziehungen ihrer Entwicklungsgeschichte.'' Budapest: Akadémiai. 1959.
*''Contributions à la connaissance de la flore de l’oligocène inférieur de la Hongrie et un essai sur la reconstitution de la végétation contemporaine.'' Budapest: Akadémiai. 1959.
*''On the Upper Oligocene of Hungary: Analysis of the site at the Wind Brickyard.'' Eger. Budapest: Akadémiai. 1966.
References
Sources
*''Magyar életrajzi lexikon I. (A–K).'' ed. Kenyeres, Ágnes. Budapest. Akadémiai Kiadó. 1967. p. 35.
*''Magyar nagylexikon II. (And–Bag).'' ed. Élesztős, László, Rostás, Sándor. Budapest. Akadémiai Kiadó. 1994. p. 28.
*''Magyarország a XX. században IV.: Tudomány – Műszaki és természettudományok.'' ed. Kollega Tarsoly, István. Szekszárd. Babits. 1999. pp. 486 and 489.
External links
Andreánszky Gábor életrajza a Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum honlapján
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1895 births
1967 deaths
20th-century Hungarian botanists
Hungarian paleontologists
Paleobotanists
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences