Baron Gábor Andreánszky de Liptószentandrás (August 1, 1895 – November 20, 1967) was a Hungarian

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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

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(now Museum of Natural History in Hungary). That position was held until 1945, when he became head of the Department of Botany at the

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, until 1952. Then, for political reasons (and probably his noble origin) he was banned. He made several expeditions to the

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. He pioneered Paleobotany of Cenozoic, especially Miocene, flora. He is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Moroccan lizard, ''

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''.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

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