Residence Hungary Author abbrev. (botany) | Nationality Hungarian Name Erasmus Nyarady | |
Born 7 April 1881
Nyaradto, Transylvania ( 1881-04-07 ) Died 10 June 1966(1966-06-10) (aged 85)
Budapest | ||
Erasmus Julius Nyarady (7 April 1881 - 10 June 1966) was a Hungarian botanist. In the Hungarian style his name appears as Nyarady Erazmus Gyula. He was born in Transylvania, in a town then called in Hungarian: Nyaradto, in Romanian: Nirasteu, now known as Ungheni, Mures.
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Career
After secondary school education in Targu Mures (Hungarian: Marosvasarhely), he attended the Teacher Training Institute in Cluj-Napoca (Hungarian: Kolozsvar, German: Klausenburg) (1900). He then studied at the Natural History Teachers' College in Budapest, graduating from the Faculty of Geography in 1904. He spent the next seven years teaching in the gymnasium of Kezmarok (Hungarian: Kesmark), then in 1911 moved back to Targu Mures. Meanwhile, he had begun to publish botanical papers, and in 1922 he was invited by the Romanian botanist Alexandru Borza to be curator of the Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden, with a remit to expand the herbarium.
Between 1940 and 1944 together with Rezso Soo he published his 9-volume Kolozsvar es kornyekenek floraja (Flora of Cluj and its environment). In 1942 he nominally retired, but did not stop his work. In 1948, the Romanian Academy elected him as a full member, and appointed him as member of the editorial board of the monumental Flora Reipublicae Socialisticae Romania, under the management of Traian Savulescu, Editor in chief. He was volume coordinator for volumes VIII-XI, after the death of Savulescu.
In 1953 he was awarded the Romanian People's Republic State Prize. He died in Budapest, and is buried in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) in the Hazsongardi Cemetery.