Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 60. (Budapest 1968)
Mihályi, F.: In memoriam Dr. K. Kertész, on the centennary of his birth
IN MEMÓRIÁM DR. K. KERTÉSZ 7 Pipunculidae duly appeared, and then he began laying the foundations of the entire world-catalogue. In 1902, the first two volumes of the "Catalogus Dipterorum hucusque descriptorum" appeared. He published the volumes by the financial support of the Hungarian National Museum and it was probably owing to the lack of further aid that the next volumes of the work, planned for 10 appeared only in 1908 at his private expense. The distribution was partly made by the firm ENGELMANN in -Leipzig. Accordingly, two volumes appeared in 1908, three in 1909, and one in 1910, that is, a total of seven volumes. After this, the publication of the great work ceased. Ln the meantime, the first volume of the "Katalog der paläarktischen Dipteren", written by KERTÉSZ, appeared in 1903; the other volumes came from the pen of BEZZI, STEIN, and BECKER. For twelve further years KERTÉSZ lived for and worked on his catalogues, but during the first world war and in its aftermath, aggravated by inflation, any further publication became impossible. At KERTÉSZ'S bier, G. HORVÁTH made a promise that the three last volumes will be published, but there was either no money or an adequate worker to finish the work and have the books printed. Since then, 45 years have lapsed, the catalogue became obsolete, and there is no hope that KERTÉSZ'S greatest achievement will ever be jrablished. All the innumerable efforts and amount of work invested by him into the catalogue after 1910 came thus tragically to nothing. Aside of his scientific and museological commitments, K. KERTÉSZ also zealously promulgated his knowledge. Some 40 papers of his, popularizing aspects and data of science, had appeared, not counting the entries written for the great Pallas encyclopedia. The papers published in the "Rovartani Lapok" and the "Wiener Entomologische Zeitung" were addressed to fellow entomologists, while those appearing in the "Természet" ( = Nature), "Természettudományi Közlöny" (= Journal of Natural Science), and the "Egészség" ( = Health) discussed informations for the wider public. In scientific journals, he reviewed in 19 papers important contemporary dipterological works published abroad. In the Hungarian Zoological Society, he gave 23 lectures based on the results of his researches and scientific papers. He also lectured at the itinerary congress of Hungarian physicians and naturalists held at Kolozsvár in 1903, and also before the First International Entomological Congress held at Bruxelles in 1910. He made several trips abroad. Besides his collecting trips to Germany, Italy, and France, he visited the collections of the Paris, London, and Hamburg Museums at the time of the Entomological Congress in 1910. In 1912, he worked again in the British Museum (Nat. Hist). His journeys and correspondance were facilitated by his linguistic abilities in German, English, and French . His correspondance with the leading dipterologists of his time was profuse ; his exchange lists carried the names, among others, of ALDRICH, AUSTEN, BEZZI, COLLIN, CRESSON, CZERNY, CZIZEK, EDWARDS, ENDERLEIN, ENGEL, FREY, HENDEL, KRÖBER, KTJNTZE, LICHTWARDT, MALLOCH, MEIJERE, MELANDER, RIEDEL, SACK, SCHNUSE, SPEISER, STEIN, VERRALL, VILLENEUVE. Fellow scientists abroad dedicated 4 new genera {Kerteszia THEOBALD, Kertesziella HENDEL, Kertesziomyia SHIRAKI, and Kerteszomyia MALLOCH) and a host of new species from a number of families to him [e.g. Axym.yia kerteszi DUDA (Bibion.), Conicera kerteszii BRUES (Phorid.), Conioscinella kerteszi BECKER (Chlor.), Cryptophleps kerteszii LICHTWARDT (Dolich.), Dizygomyza kerteszi HENDEL (Agrom.), Dolichophorus kerteszii LICHTWARDT (Dolich.), Empis kerteszii BEZZI (Empid.) Eusimulium kerteszi ENDERLEIN (Simul.), Leptoconops kerteszii KIEFFER (Ceratop).,
