Olivér György Dely
Olivér György Dely is a herpetologist Hungarian born the April 27th 1927 in Nagyszalonta (Salonta) in Romania and dead the November 19th 2003.
It makes its studies with Budapest where it obtains a diploma of Muséologie at the university of arts of the city. It starts to work on the collections of Herpétologie at the department of zoology of the Natural history museum of natural history of Hungary.
This collection is almost entirely destroyed at the time of the event of 1956. 40.000 specimens preserved in alcohol, including the types of Lajos Méhelÿ (1862-1952) are lost. Manuscripts of Dely, of which that of sound Doctorate, representing eight years of work, are also destroyed; it owes all begins again to zero.
After the end of the disorders, the work of Dely is to entirely reconstitute these collections. The natural history museum receives many donations of the European natural history musea (of which that of Berlin and Prague). Dely will have thus succeeds, at the end of its career, to constitute a new collection of 16.000 specimens.
It organizes a forwarding in Egypt in 1957 then, in 1973, in the the Sahara Algérie N. During this one, it is seriously wounded, during a night forwarding by a stray bullet.
It Marie in 1965 with Ágnes Draskovits, which works in the same institution as him as a specialist in the Diptère S.
At the same period, the natural history museum of Budapest organizes regularly scientific exhibitions North Korea. In 1978, both Dely take part in the first forwarding of a series of four.
In 1981, it is at the origin of the first International Conference of herpetology organized in a communist country . 47 representatives of 14 different countries, whose the United States, France, Germany, Austria and Russia, will come to take part in it.
Dely published 83 scientific articles, often of the fauna of its country. It is necessary to announce its Fauna Hungariae which appears in 1967 for the part on the Amphibien S and in 1978 for that on the Reptile S. It in particular described there all the species of the basin of the Carpates.
Source
- KORSÓS Z. & VÖRÖS J. (2004). In memoriam Dr. Olivér György Dely (1927-2003). Yearly Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 96 : 5-17.
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