Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
Early History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from the 16th till the 19th century (1560–1800)
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 55 Protection Service founded in 1932. The Hungarian research centre of forestry protection is the Erdészeti Tudományos Intézet (Forestry Research Institute) in Budapest founded in Selmecbánya (Banská Stiavnica) in 1897. Different scientific societies and associations gave place for the regional entomological research, like the Pozsonyi Orvos- és Természettudományi Egyesület (Pozsony Society of Medical Sciences and Natural History) foundend in 1856, the Erdélyi Múzeumi Egylet (Association of Transylvanian Museums) founded in 1859, the Magyar Természettudományi Társulat és Magyar Orvosok és Természetvizsgálók Vándorgyűlései (Annual Assemblies of the Hungarian Society of Nature Scientist and Medical Doctors) founded in 1841 or the Selmecbányái Gyógyászati és Természettudományi Egyesület (Selmecbánya Society of Medical and Nature Sicences) founded around 1870, Kolozsvári Orvos- Természettudományi Társulat (Kolozsvár Society of Medical Sciences and Nature History) foundend in 1876. Ottó Herman established the journal titled Természetrajzi Füzetek (Journal of Natural History). In this time, several museums were founded countrywide: in 1879, the Szeged Municipal Museum; in 1882, the Carpathian Museum at Poprád; in 1889, the Besztercebánya (Banská Bystrica) Museum and in 1887 the Mátra Museum at Gyöngyös. The bases of the Natural History Department of Brukenthal Museum (Nagyszeben, Sibiu) were laid in 1849, through the foundation of the Transylvanian Society of Natural Sciences (Siebenbürgiseher Verein für Naturwissenschaften, Erdélyi Természettudományi Egyesület, 1849-1949). Anders Gustav Dahlbom (3rd March 1806 Herrberga - 3rd May 1859 Lund) was bom in a family of a military surgeon. In his work, titled "Hymenoptera europaea prae- cipue borealia : formis typicis nonnullis specierum generumve exoticorum aut extraneorum propter nexum systematicum associatis; per familias, genera, species et varietates disposita atque descripta vol. 1. Sphex sensu Linneano " (nice, long title) Dahlbom published 2 species from Hungary. One of them is Larra anathema Rossi (Dahlbom, 1843) the other one, he described from Hungary, is Pompilus zelleri Dahlbom, 1843. This second specimen, he received from his friend Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808-1883) German entomologist. Furthermore, in Dahlbom 1843a, he published occurrence of 4 Chrysididae species from Hungary and in the 1854 issue of "Hymenoptera europaea praecipue borealia" Dahlbom provided one more description: Chrysis albipennis Dahlbom, 1854 from Hungary. Dahlbom attributed this species to Klug, however Klug didn't described it. He found an old specimen in Berlin Museum probably with label of Klug like "albipennis and Hungária" but we have no description from Klug (Dahlbom 1854). The young Gustav inherited his interest in entomology from his father, Wilhelm Dahlbom who was amateur entomologist. He matriculated at Lund University in 1825 and completed his PhD there and became docent of natural history in 1830, and later ordinary professor of entomology, and curator of the university entomological collections. He married Johanna Augusta Maria Vilhelmina Krey in 1845. Supported by public funds, he made several research journeys, especially to mountaneous regions of northern Sweden (where he first accompanied his former teacher, the dipterologist Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt), as well as to other parts of the country and abroad, and published his observations in various works, in which the most important is the Hymenoptera europaea praecipue borealia (1843-1853), a foundational work on hymenoptera. He died in Lund and buried in the cemetery of the monastery. Arnold Förster (20th January 1810 Aachen - 12th August 1884 Aachen). German botanist and entomologist. The young Arnold was bom in a family of a farmer, Caspar
