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

then we set off to the field. I was fortunate enough to join him in a plant collecting excursion - rendered in heavy rain - followed by several field trips alongside the Professor.) As in case of many botanists (in Hungary and probably elsewhere) who devoted their time and energy to advance their field of research, great figures of plant science are only appreciated after they passed away. Endre Jeney has been among these: he was a collector, a teacher, and also a person who was able to establish a botanical school without formal professorship, but with immense energy and unconditional helpfulness. Jeney was a person willing to help any young botanists and this way he has given much help and advice to Zoltán Barina during for the work on the flora of Gerecse, and István Dancza in studying the ruderal and segetal vegetation in Southwest Transdanubia. Moreover, he was a consultant to many young agricultural experts and botanists among them Lajos Balogh, Sándor Barabás, Norbert Bauer, Marianna Biró, Zsolt Domokos, Sándor Farkas, László Fülöp, Sándor Kocsis, Gábor Matus, János Mészáros, Gyula Pinke, and Eszter Ruprecht. Following his retirement he regularly attended the meetings of the Hungarian Botanical Society; from 1998 he participated in nine meetings, and commented the presentations on twelve occasions. In the winter of

2000-2001 he actively participated in the formulation and development of the "Intensive Botanical Data Collection Programme" organised by the Ecological and Botanical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Vácrátót. For this programme he contributed important data from 143 little-researched localities in Hungary. In May 2001 he guided a field trip to study the vegetation and landscape use along the borders of Hungary - and he was accompanied by young botanists Marianna Biró, Lajos Balogh, Sándor Barabás, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, István Dancza, Gyula Pinke, and Eszter Ruprecht. PLANT COLLECTING TRIPS Professor Jeney's plant collecting trips are well documented by accurate field diaries and collecting books. He spent 1,114 days in the field, most of these (1,014) in Hungary and 100 days abroad.