Salamon János Petényi
Salamon János Petényi (born July 30, 1799 in Ábelová , Neograd County , Austrian Empire ; † October 5, 1855 in Pest , Austrian Empire) was a Hungarian Lutheran pastor and zoologist.
Life
Salamon János Petényi's father was a Lutheran pastor in the Slovak-speaking village of Ábelfalva. He studied Protestant theology in Pozsony and Vienna . In 1826 he passed his exams and was pastor in Cinkota (part of today's Budapest ) until 1833 .
However, he was interested in natural science, ornithology and paleontology . He therefore initially worked on the side in the natural history collection of the Hungarian National Museum . In 1834 he became a curator and subsequently curator at the National Museum and its zoological collection. He is considered the founder of ornithology in Hungary. In 1846, Petényi became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .
Petényi's contributions were rarely published during his lifetime. The naturalist Ferenc Kubinyi took over his estate in the National Museum, but it was largely lost after his death. Kubiny in 1864 and Titusz Csörgey in 1898 and 1905 published writings from the estate.
The first description of the steppe mouse , Mus spicilegus Petényi , in 1882, by Petényi. In 1847 his friend Johann Jacob Heckel named the species Barbus petenyi from the genus Barben after him.
Fonts (selection)
- Czikkei az Oken által szerkesztett Isisben . 1830.
- Erdély állattan tekintetében . 1844
- Bihar megye Sebes- és Fekete-Körös közti hegyláncolatain tett természettudományi utazásának rövid vázlata . 1854
- Ferencz Kubínyi (ed.): Petényi Salamon János hátrahagyott munkái , Pest 1864
- Ornithological fragments from the manuscripts of Salamon János von Petényi ; German edited by Titus Csörgey, with an introduction by Otto Herman . Köhler, Gera-Untermhaus 1905.
literature
- K. Benda: Petényi, Salamon János (1799–1855), zoologist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 439.
- Ottó Herman : JS v. Petényi the founder of scientific ornithology in Hungary. A picture of life 1799–1855 , Second International Ornithological Congress. Hungarian National Museum, Budapest 1891
Web links
- Literature by and about Salamon János Petényi in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Entry about Salamon János Petényi in the Hungarian Biographical Lexicon (MEK) of the National Széchényi Library (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ferenc Kubinyi in the Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Kubinyi Ferenc
- ↑ Titusz Csörgey in the Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Csörgey Titusz
- ^ Klaus Unterholzner, Renate Willenig, Kurt Bauer: Contributions to the knowledge of the ear mouse. Mus spicilegus Peteny, 1882 . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2000
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petényi, Salamon János |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ján Šalamún Petian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian Lutheran pastor and zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ábelová , Neograd County , Austrian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1855 |
| Place of death | Pest , Austrian Empire |