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

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n botanist of Hungarian

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. 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 , in , now known as

Ungheni, Mureș Ungheni ( ; ) 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 (''Kiscserged''), Morești (''Malomfalva''), Recea ...

Career

After secondary school education in

Târgu Mureș Târgu Mureș (, ; ; German language, German: ''Neumarkt am Mieresch'') is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the list of cities and towns in Romania, 16th-largest city in Romania, with 116,033 ...

(), he attended the Teacher Training Institute in

Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

(, ) (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

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(), 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 Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology st ...

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

(

) 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 but equally valid) Cruciferae () is a medium-sized and economically important Family (biology), family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family. Most are herbaceous pla ...

) ''

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 plant, annu ...

nyaradyi'' Bornm. & Gauba * (

Poaceae Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...

) ''

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 botanis ...

nyaradyi'' Ujhelyi * (

Salicaceae The Salicaceae are the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') includes the willows, poplars. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly expanded the circumsc ...

) ''

Salix Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions. Most species are known ...

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