Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 102. (Budapest 2010)
Papp, J.: In memoriam Dr Henrik Steinmann (1932–2009)
In memóriám Dr Henrik Steinmann (1932-2009) 7 Germany, Italy, and Spain - and China and Korea, just to name two countries outside Europe. His trip to Korea is especially memorable because he joined the first Korean-Hungarian Zoological Expedition in 1970. Well, that is how the small entomological orders started evolving into a collection containing several tens of thousands of specimens that was destined to acquire international acclaim later on. His appointment as the Head of the Natural History Museum's Department of Zoology in 1970 marked yet another rise in his career. As Dr ZOLTÁN K ASZAB , the General Director, held both his scientific achievements and his personal qualities in great esteem, HENRIK STEINMANN's good relations to him were of utmost significance in terms of his career path. HENRIK STEINMANN, both in his manager's and staffer's capacity, always maintained good and humane relations to both his colleagues and the people reporting to him. He was on good, co-operative terms with everyone and never had any conflicts with, nor did he bear any grudges against, anyone. Many of his friends and acquaintances were of the opinion that he would have made a great diplomat. He just knew how to deal with people ! His research work was characterized by outstanding productivity. In total, nearly 170 entomological studies of his were published in Hungarian and foreign journals or in the form of books. The majority of the taxa (species, genera, subfamilies) he described belonged to the order of Dermaptera, and a smaller portion of them to the order of Orthoptera - Neuroptera. He described almost 300 new taxa. He wrote five booklets about small entomological orders for the series of Magyarország Állatvilága (Fauna Hungáriáé), and a booklet as the general introduction to the class Insecta. These booklets are of 50-400 pages, each. In co-operation with Dr LAJOS ZOMBORI, his co-author, he published three separate volumes entitled "head", "thorax", "abdomen" that were drawn under the common title of "A rovartest alaktani kifejezései" [Morphological Idioms of Insect Body]. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences published the same work in English, too, in two volumes of nearly 1,200 pages. As a shining proof of the book's success, the Chinese Academy of Sciences also published a Chinese version of this work. In 1999 - as a token of general recognition and by way of a " gap-filler " - the Berlin/New York-based Verlag Walter de Gruyter - one of the world's most honoured publishers of scientific works - published a 400-page version of the book under the title of "Dictionary oflnsect Morphology". Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 102, 2010
