Kanitzia 8. [antikvár]

Kanitzia 8, 7-11. Szombathely. 2000 KÖVÖN VIRÁG: HORVÁTH ERNŐRE EMLÉKEZÜNK BALOGH LAJOS Savaria Múzeum, Természettudományi Osztály, Szombathely Abstract Balogh L., 2000, In remembrance of Ernő HORVÁTH (1929-1990), Kanitzia 8, 7-11. Ernő Horváth (1929-1990) graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) in 1953 majoring in biology and geography. First he was co-worker of the Botanical Department in the Museum of Natural Sciences (Budapest). Later he became leader and museologist of Savaria Museum's Natural History Department and spend here the rest of his life. His main field of scientific research was the palaeobotany but important works in domain of archaeobotany, floristics, nature conservation, history of science also has been made. He published about 100 different papers regarding these topics. He created and directed the "Nature History of the Praenoricum" regional research program. His activity was determinant in acquaintance of the region's natural history. The field of his research on palaeobotany was the flora of Hungary in Late Tertiary and Quaternary (first: Late Miocene, secondly: Pleistocene). He discovered and gathered in numerous sites from the Late Tertiary. The result of his special literary activity is more than 30 publications. As student of Gábor Andreánszky, on his request, he made the working up the Lower Pannonian flora of Megyaszó (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, NW-Hungary). Of his studies the works as "Adatok a növények fosszilizációjának kérdéséhez" (Data regarding to plant fossilization), "A felso-pliocén ősföldrajzi, rétegtani és ösnövénytani problémái" (The palaeographic, stratigraphic and palaeobotanical problems of Late Pliocene) has known an overriding importance. From the Upper Pannonian strata near Sé village (Vas County) he described Acer séensis Horváth, new for the science. He has done a wide public education work and many of his studies and lectures popularized the palaeobotany. With his archaeobotanical studies often provided help to the archaeologists. In Savaria Museum he created the richest Pannonian palaeobotanical collection of Hungary, which acquired in this way an international importance. The chart summing up the main items of the collection indicates to his relevant publications. Since the working up of the collection is not yet complete, this work was continued after 1990 by Lilla Hably and co-workers (O. Fischer, Z. Kvacek, Gy. Szakmány, J. Kovar-Eder) with studying the fossils of Gérce and Dozmat (both are in Vas County). His essay written together with József Jeanplong is still today an important informational source. He enlarged also the herbarium collection representing the famous horticulture of Vas County The participants of "Nature History of the Praenoricum" regional research program enriched the floristic research's results too. He edited the museum's annals presenting the results and the first two volumes of the Praenorica (Folia historico-naturalia). With his work contributed in a significant degree to the acquaintance of the region's flora. To his memory there is planned the establishing of an "Ernő Horváth Palaeobotanical Study-Pathway" in the Chemel-garden (reconstructed by Horváth) of Kőszeg (Vas County). This,