Eugen von Daday

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Eugen von Daday

Eugen von Daday or Jenő von Daday (born May 24, 1855 in Buzamező , Transylvania , † April 2, 1920 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian zoologist .

Life

Eugen von Daday studied zoology at the University of Kolozsvar with Geza Entz and specialized in the aquatic fauna in freshwater ponds and lakes in his homeland. He was also at the Zoological Station in Naples, where he made international contacts, and in 1902 became Professor of Zoology at the Technical University of Budapest .

He was a specialist in crustaceans (especially microscopic crustaceans and rotifers ), but also dealt with other arthropods such as millipedes (myriapods). Through exchange with other scientists, he not only worked on the aquatic crustacean fauna of Hungary and neighboring countries, but also, for example, from the Antarctic and the Pacific. At the request of the French Academy of Sciences, he wrote a monograph on Phyllopoda and the rotifer genera Asplanchna and Anuraea . The last years of his life were overshadowed by the death of his son in the First World War.

He described around 1000 new taxa. His collection came to the Hungarian Museum of Natural Sciences in Budapest.

Dedication names

Three genera and 22 species were named in his honor. He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Rudolph Bergh: The organism of the cilioflagellates. A phylogenetic study . W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1881.
  • Cypridicola Parasitica Nov. Gen. Nov. Sp. A new wheel animal . Budapest 1892.
  • Microscopic freshwater animals from Ceylon . Budapest 1898.
  • Studies on the freshwater microfauna of Paraguay . E. Nägele, Stuttgart 1905.
  • Ostracodes marins . Masson et Cie, Paris 1908.
  • with Harriet Richardson: Expédition antarctique française 1903–1905. Sciences naturelles. Documents scientifiques . Masson et Cie, Paris 1908.
  • Investigations into the freshwater microfauna of German East Africa . E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1910.
  • Results of the zoological research trip undertaken with a subsidy from the Treitl inheritance by Dr. Franz Noners to Egyptian Sudan and Northern Uganda . Part 15: Contributions to the knowledge of the microfauna of the Nile . A. Hölder, Vienna 1910.
  • with Eugène Louis Bouvier : Deuxième expédition antarctique française 1908–1910 commandée par le Dr Jean Charcot Sciences naturelles. Documents scientifiques . 1913.
  • Phyllopodes anostracés . Masson et Cie, Paris 1913.
  • Monograph systématique des Phyllopodes Conchostracés . Masson et Cie, Paris 1925.

literature

  • László Forró: In memoriam Jenő Daday . In: Miscellanea zoologica hungarica. Volume 1, 1982, pp. 7-10
  • B. Entz, D. Lukacs: Dr. Jenö Daday and the hungarian hydrobiological research . In: Hydrobiologia 145, 1987, pp. 1-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daday, Monograph of the Myriapods of Hungary, Budapest 1889 (Hungarian with Latin descriptions)
personal data
SURNAME Daday, Eugen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daday, Jenő from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Buzamező , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1920
Place of death Budapest