KUBINYI Ferenc életútja és őslénytani munkássága

Abstract

Ferenc KUBINYI belonged to the first group of scholars in Hungary who, in the early 19th century, began to study palaeontology seriously. He published 21 papers in Hungarian and German during his palaeontological research, which
included exploratory, descriptive and explanatory work. He also produced 38 scientific papers dealing with other topics. Apart from these efforts, he collected significant artefacts for his family's museum at Losonc, and worked as a researcher
for the palaeontological collection of the Hungarian National Museum. For his scientific work he was elected to be a correspondent of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1840 and later, in 1858, he became an honorary member of the
Academy. Besides his scientific research, in the 1840s he played a leading role in the development of scientific movements in Hungary. He was a founder member of, respectively, the congresses of Society of Hungarian Physicians
and Naturalists, the Royal Hungarian Natural Science Society and the Hungarian Geological Society. It is an important fact that he was the first vice-president of the latter.