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Papp, L.: In memoriam Dr. Ferenc Mihályi (1906-1997)

ANNALES HISTORTCO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 90. Budapest, 1998 pp. 5-16 In memóriám Dr. Ferenc Mihályi (1906-1997) L. PAPP Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H]088 Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary FERENC MIHÁLYI was born on the 6th of October 1906 in Budapest, more precisely in Óbuda, the north-western part of a young metropolis, formerly an independent city, where the German more than the Hungarian language was used even at that time. His father was a licenced victualler. He had two brothers and a younger sister. All the four children were highly educated, three of them at the university level. He graduated from the "Toldy Ferenc Főreáliskola", a well known secondary school of Budapest, and after years of collecting butterflies, in 1924 he entered the Budapest University (Pázmány Péter, later Eötvös Loránd University), Faculty of Science and Arts at Budapest, for the branch of natural history and geography. He completed studies in 1928 and graduated in 1929 as a secondary school teacher. He also obtained a diploma of "doctor rerum naturalis" there in 1936 (majoring in zoology, his thesis on the flight muscles of the house fly was published in 1935, see below). Dr. FERENC MIHÁLYI at the age of 67