Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
80 Natura Somogyiensis regime and he was rehabilitated only post-mortem. He died in cancer. Lajos Varga reported a large vespiary of Vespula germanica from Sopron (Varga 1939). Gábor Stohl (23rd April 1919 Budapest - 6th April 2009 Budapest) Biologist. Curator of Hymenoptera between 1945 and 1949 at Department of Zoology of Hungarian Natural History Museum and after this period he worked for Collection of mammals. After finishing the Sziget street primary school and the Lutheran High School of Budapest, he received natural history and chemistry teacher degree at Faculty of Arts of Budapest University of Sciences and after one year he doctorated. In his first years of his career, he was part-time teacher at the Lutheran High School and the State High School of district 10th of Budapest meanwhile in his free time, Stohl worked for the Department of Zoology of Budapest University of Sciences as volunteer. His next period of life was the researcher position at Hungarian Natural History Museum where he was curator of Hymenoptera, Odonata and Neuroptera collections between 1945 and 1949. After this few years, he moved to Tihany Biological Station, than he changed again to the academic research group located at and cooperated with Gödöllő University: Dept, of Livestock Breeding. His next working place was the Institute of Genetics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In these years, Gábor Stohl received his PhD. He spoke Russian and German in advanced level. His last workplace was the Department of Zoology of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Gábor Stohl was member of Division of Zoology of the Hungarian Biological Society, Division of Zoology of Hungarian Society of Natural Sciences and member of editorial staff of Búvár (popular science magazine). During that short period, when he was curator of Hymenoptera collection in Budapest, he wrote 3 papers on Aculeata. In these papers, he studied the Andrena species of the Carpathian Basin (he planned a series, but only the first paper was completed), the variability of Halictus tumulorum L. and the anatomy of genitalia and mouthparts of Halictus species living in Hungary (Stohl 1945, 1947, 1948). Gábor Kolozsváry (Gábor Kolosváry) (18th August 1901 Kolozsvár - 24th December 1968 Szeged). Gábor started his university studies at József Ferenc (King Franz Josef) University in Kolozsvár and graduated at Szeged University (because of the relocation of the University after 1920). Gábor Kolosváry started his career at Dept, of Zoology of the Hungarian National Museum and became curator of the paleontology collection. Parallel with this, he had professor status at Szeged University either. For 2 years, he was guest professor of Budapest University of Sciences. His last 14 years, he spent in Szeged, where he was head of the Department of Zoology at Szeged University. We know only one hymenopterological paper of him. In this work, he describes in details the ectoparasitic breeding behavior of Homonotus sanguinolentus (Fabricius, 1793) pompilid wasp on Cheiracanthium erraticum (Walckenaer, 1802) spider (Kolosváry 1937). József Erdős (9th March 1900 Péterréve - 1st August 1971 Székesfehérvár). Chlacidoidea specialist, catholic priest of Tompa. He was bom in Péterréve where his father was teacher of the local elementary school. Later he went to Kalocsa (to the archi- episcopal residence) where he was educated at the catholic high school. From 1926, Erdős became professor of the Archbishop's Theological College. Between 1931 and 1934, he graduated at Ferenc József University at Szeged and his second degree was in geography and natural history. Finally, in 1935, he finished the university with doctoral degree. Returning to the Theological College, he continued his professorship, and later appointed director of the institute. In the communist era, when the regime disbanded the Theological College, he was sent to Tompa for pastoral service. These year was the most
