Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
Early History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from the 16th till the 19th century (1560–1800)
66 Natura Somogyiensis Jean-Jacques Kieffer (17th February 1857 Guinkirchen - 30th December 1925 Bitche) was a French naturalist and entomologist who specialised in the study of parasitic and dipterous insects. He was educated as priest (similarly to Sándor Mocsáry) and started his career as teacher of the College of St. Augustin in Bitche where he spent his life and where his first paper published about the local flora and fauna. His lifework was enourmus, he published 471 sceintific papers and books and gave name and provided description of 4704 species mainly parasitic Hymenoptera and Diptera. Kieffer received doctor honoris causa degree from the University of Strasbourg in 1904. In our point of view, his monographs written wiht coauthorship of Thomas Ansell Marshall (1827-1903, English cleric and entomologist) are the most important which were published in the series of Species Hyménoptéres d’Europe & d’Algerie (Kieffer and Marsfiall 1904, 1905a,b, 1906a,b). In these books, he provided description of 39 species and variations of Bethylidae and Drynidae based on the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. These data are repeated in Kieffer 1914a,b. Carl Heinrich (11th March 1850 Nagyszeben - 24th July 1920 Nagyszeben). Chemist of Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt, Sibiu). Carl Heinrich graduated at the Lutheran gramar school of Nagyszeben and studied pharmacy at Graz University later in Berlin. He published 24 scientific papers on very diverse fields of nature history like spiders, sponges, cephalopodes, fossil plants, aphids, hymenoptera etc., he published even archeological and art history papers as well. Most of his papers were published in "Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt" between 1877 and 1916. In his series of Hymenopterology (Heinrich 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883 and 1884), he summarized the results of his 4 years collections. He listed 141 Apoidea, 4 Chrysidoidea, 26 Sphecoidea, 8 Pompilidae, 2 Sapygidae, 2 Mutillidae and 13 Vespidae species without exact locality (the given place of capture only Hermannstadt) and we have no information about in which month or day he collected them. His Apoidea list is very impressive. Other Aculeata groups are listed only in Heinrich 1882. Jenő Daday (deési), (24th May 1855 Búzamező, - 2nd April 1920 Budapest) zoologist, hydrobiologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Daday wrote a short popular scientific paper on the life history of spider wasps (Daday 1905). József Hajóss bank dark in Budapest, amateur entomologist, member of the Hungarian Entomological Society. He published one interesting paper of Vespidae titled "Gázlámpában elhelyezett darázsfészek" (Vespiary built in gaslamp) (Hajóss 1900). Károly Sajó (originally Károly Schemiz, 20th June 1851 Győr - 9th February 1939 Orszentmiklós). The young Károly was educated at Győr high school and graduated at Pest University where he obtained his teaching degree in natural sciences. He was employed by the Royal Catholic high school in Ungvár (now Uzhhorod). In 1888, he joined to the National Phylloxera Experimental Station and retired at his own request in 1895 due to deafness caused by scarlet fever, and returned to his wife’s family estates at Kisszentmiklós where he spent the rest of his life with scientific studies and observations. He was member of the Hungarian Entomological Society, the Royal Hungarian Natural History Society and the Association of Economic Entomologists, the Kaiserliche- königliche zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft in Vienna and the Verein für schlesische Insektenkunde in Breslau. From his first wife, Ilona Kvassay, he had three sons. After his first wife’s death, he was remarried to his sister-in-law, Júlia Kvassay. Four papers of him discuss the harms caused by leafcutter bees (Sajó 1884a,b, 1892, 1896b). He
