Sándor Jávorka (12 March 1883 - 28 September 1961) was a Hungarian botanist. His birthplace was Hegybánya, then in the
Kingdom of Hungary, now in
Slovakia and now called
Štiavnické Bane
Štiavnické Bane is a village in the Banská Štiavnica District, in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia.
Name
First, in 1352 it was recorded as ''Sygluspergh'', then in 1388 as ''Pergh'', in 1457 as ''Sigelsperg'', in 1559 as ''Pergh'', la ...
. He died in
Budapest. Occasionally he has been referred to as Alexander Jávorka; the Hungarian style of his name is Jávorka Sándor.
Life and work
After attending school in Selmecbánya (now called
Banská Štiavnica
Banská Štiavnica (; german: Schemnitz; hu, Selmecbánya (Selmec), ) is a town in central Slovakia, in the middle of an immense caldera created by the collapse of an ancient volcano. For its size, the caldera is known as the Štiavnica Mountain ...
), Sándor Jávorka studied at the
University of Budapest and graduated in 1906 with a thesis on the genus ''
Onosma''. Since 1905 he was employed in the Department of Botany of the
Hungarian National Museum, where he worked until 1940, latterly as its director. Even after retirement, he remained there still active. In 1939 he became a professor at the University of Budapest. In 1936 he became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and seven years later a permanent member. In 1952 he was awarded the
Kossuth Prize
The Kossuth Prize ( hu, Kossuth-dÃj) is a state-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionist Lajos Kossuth. The Prize was established in 1948 (on occasion of the centenary of the March 15th revolution, the ...
.
The focus of Jávorka's scientific work was plant
taxonomy and the
Flora of Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania. From 1903, he published over 220 works, including 18 books. His main works include the ''Flora Hungarica'' (1924–25) and the complementary illustrated version ''Iconographia Florae Partis Austro-Orientalis Europae Centralis'' (1929 to 1934, with co-author
Vera Csapody), besides several identification books and a biography of the Hungarian botanist
Pál Kitaibel.
Book translated into English
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References
External links
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BiographyP. Pejkovszka, Magyar értelmiség az újkori bolgár kultúra fejlődésében.- Begegnungen Schriftenreihe des Europa Institutes Budapest, Bd. 2, 1996, pp. 87-97.
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Eötvös Loránd University faculty
20th-century Hungarian botanists
1883 births
1961 deaths