Zoltán Szilády (21 May 1878 – 15 April 1947) was a Hungarian

museologist Museology (also called museum studies or museum science) is the study of museums. It explores the history of museums and their role in society, as well as the activities they engage in, including curating, preservation, public programming, and ed ...

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

and university lecturer and teacher. He specialised in

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advance ...

. He was born in

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

and died aged 68 in Grosspösna,

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Works

Partial List *A magyar állattani irodalom ismertetése. III. escription of the Hungarian zoological literature III.1890-1900 (ed.) (Magyar Természettudományi Társulat, Bp. 1903) * Über paläarktischen Syrphiden. I-IV. (Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici, 29, 1935, 213-216, 31, 1937–38, 137-143, 32, 1939, 136-140, 33, 1940, 54-70) * Jegyzetek a legyek lábszerkezetéről otes on the structure of Diptera legs(Állattani Közlemények 34, 1937, 87-92) * A magyar birodalom legyeinek szinopszisa. VI. Talpaslegyek, Clythidae (Platypezidae); VIII. Lauxaniidae ynopsis of the flies of the Hungarian empire(Matematikai és Természettudományi Értesítő, 60, 1941, 627-633, 913-924).

Notes

Módin László (ed.): Bibliographia Universitatis Debreceniensis Pars I. Facultas Scientiarum Naturalium 1914-1955. (Tankönyvkiadó, Bp. 1956, 72-184).

External links

Biography under Diptera Collection. {{DEFAULTSORT:Szilady, Zoltan Hungarian entomologists Scientists from Budapest Dipterists 1878 births 1947 deaths