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Dancza, István: In memoriam Endre Jeney. (16 August 1934, Debrecen - 11 February 2004, Budapest)

During his university studies he was an active participant of the informal botanical school around Soó. He took part in many botanical collecting trips along with noted teachers of the Soó school, among them Lajos Felföldy, Gábor Ubrizsy, Attila Borhidi, and Tibor Simon. In 1956 he graduated and became a biology and chemistry teacher. After he finished his studies he worked for the Esze Tamás school in Mátészalka, but shortly afterwards he moved to Karcag, where he taught at the Vasút Street primary school. Meanwhile he served as a professional secretary of the Society for Promoting Scientific Knowledge in Hajdú-Bihar county, followed by another teaching term at a primary school in Várpalota. From November 1959 he changed position to work as a parasitologist and biologist for the Station of Public Health and Epidemiology. His main tasks were the coordination of mosquito eradication programs in the northern side of Lake Balaton, and fly and tick population surveys in I960. As he was also interested in epidemiology and entomology, Jeney in 1961 became a member of the Hungarian Entomological Society. In 1961, his status as a parasitologist was discontinued but took up a new job at the Irinyi János Secondary School in Nyergesújfalu. In August 1981 he became a biology and chemistry teacher and resident assistant teacher at the "Jávorka Sándor" Secondary Technical School for Agriculture in Tata. This period gave him opportunities to lead field practices for secondary school students, and teach agrobotany, and taxonomy of cultivated plants and weeds. He also mentored many talented students during their preparation for natural and human science competitions and was ready to prepare pupils for higher-level exams. Jeney gave his students much more than just biology - he intended to provide a broad intellectual basis for his colleagues and students. He intended to share his general knowledge gained through his travels in and outside the country, and share all he could in the fields of natural and especially agricultural sciences. (The writer of this article first met him as a secondary school student in 1985. The first question Jeney has asked me when checking my dormitory cabinet, "What is this, my young friend?" - and it was my private herbarium ... There were two hundred plant specimens in the cupboard, and this has sparked interest in him: we immediately began identifying these specimens with the Professor at that evening. Among the specimens there was a sample of Digitalis lanata. I had to explain where it was collected and