János Balogh (biologist)
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János Balogh (19 February 1913, Lonka, Austro-Hungarian Empire – 15 August 2002, Budapest) was a Hungarian zoologist, ecologist, and professor, a recipient of the Kossuth and Széchenyi Prizes, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He specialized in
arachnology Arachnology is the science, scientific study of arachnids, which comprise spiders and related invertebrates such as scorpions, Pseudoscorpionida, pseudoscorpions, Opiliones, harvestmen, Tick, ticks, and mites. Those who study spiders and other a ...
, and made major contributions to the knowledge of spiders and oribatid mites, as well as zoocenology, the study of animal communities.


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János Balogh Commemorial Session Held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
''Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae'', volume. 49, 2003. pp. 297-341 1913 births 2002 deaths 20th-century Hungarian zoologists Arachnologists Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungarian ecologists {{Hungary-scientist-stub