Hungarian Agricultural Research, 2006 (XV/2-4)

2006-06-01 / 2. szám

0075077 OMgKDK Periodika 2 Ews & Events • News & Events • News & Events • News & Events • News & Events János Magyar Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences János Magyar was born on October 14, 1911. Mr. Magyar graduated in for­est engineering in 1935 in the town of Sopron and began his career as manor­ial assistant forest engi­neer. Between 1939 and 1940 he worked at the Department of Forest Management of the University and at the Forest Research Institute. From 1941 to 1952 he held various leading positions in practical forestry at the Forestry Centre in Gödöllő and at the Ministry of Agriculture in Budapest. Between 1952 and 1954 Mr. Magyar was director of the Forest Research Institute. From here he went to Sopron to be head of the Department of Forest Management of the College of Forestry. From 1957 to 1960 he was director, then vice rector of the College of Forestry. He retired in 1982. From that time, as a pensioner, he was active in the train­ing of young scientists. With his death a golden leaf fell from the hundred year old tree of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, of practical forestry, of forest research and higher education, a leaf which is mourned by the nation’s scientific community together with foresters, researchers and professors of forestry. Even though we know the unalterable truth saying ‘Longius aut proprius mors sua quamque manet’, i.e. ‘Every man must die sooner or later’, still it is hard to accept that one of the last members of a leg­endary generation of foresters has made his entrance into the above world on his way to the eternal hunting grounds. On the way he was accom­panied by the trees of the forests, beeches, horn­beams, alders, sky scrap­ing pines and by the love of the foresters who had once been his students, who had been his fellows in labouring for the Hungarian forests and companions in searching for the secrets of forest life. Hungarian Agricultural Research 2006/2

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