Vidor Tafner

Vidor Tafner (born November 2, 1881 in Bátaszék , Kingdom of Hungary , † October 1, 1966 in Budapest , Hungary ) was a Hungarian zoologist and goldsmith .

Life

In 1905 Tafner received his doctorate in zoology from the Hungarian Royal University of Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca , Romania ). Then he was a lecturer there. From 1906 he taught in Besztercebánya (today Banská Bystrica , Slovakia ), where he experimented with the production of a new type of glass. After the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, in which the region Upper Hungary to Czechoslovakia was ceded, he settled in Székesfehérvár down, retired and was limited to the goldsmith's art . From 1927 he headed a ceramics workshop, but continued his work as a goldsmith after it was closed in 1936. In 1964 he moved to Budapest, where he died two years later.

In addition to glass research, Tafner experimented with enamels and glazes and also made objects out of hammer-hardened copper. His jewelry, made with filigree technology , is an original aspect of the art nouveau goldsmith's art in Hungary. His best known work is the Silver Ciborium in Sümeg . In September 1965, the István Csók Gallery in Székesfehérvár organized a solo exhibition of his works.

Tafner's zoological interest was in insects and mites . About 1901 he published several writings, including Összenövesztett pillangók (1901, also in the German translation About artificially deformed butterflies appeared) A Rhynolophusok tapintó készülékéről (1904), Az atkafélék (1904), Az atkafélék Földrajzi elterjedése (1905) and Adatok Magyarország atkafaunájához (1905). The latter post contains the first descriptions of the mite species Galumna globuloides , Ceratoppia hungarica and Chamobates apathyi .

Tafner married Ilona Anna Mária Ullmann on December 18, 1907 in Baja .

literature

• Joseph Pungur (Ed.): Hungarian World Encyclopedia Corvin History Society, Edmonton Corvinus Library, Hamilton Canada, 2013, pp. 2703-2704