Ödön Tömösváry

Ödön Tömösváry (Edmund Tömösváry, October 12, 1852, in Magyaró – August 15, 1884, in Déva) was a Hungarian naturalist, myriapodologist and entomologist.

He attended secondary school in Kolozsvár and university of Selmecbánya.

Tömösváry completed his university studies in Budapest in 1881, and his doctoral thesis concerned the anatomical structure of the respiratory organ of Scutigera coleoptrata.

In his scientific career Tömösváry wrote 57 papers.

When he arrived in the Lower Danube region to study the Columbatch fly (Simuliidae) he became sick with tuberculosis.