Ferenc Kubinyi

Their teachers in Banská Bystrica included Christian Andreas Zipser and János Salamon Petényi who created an interest in natural history.

He attended parliament from 1825 as an ambassador and joined the liberal opposition in the 1840s, representing Losonc district in 1848.

He founded and organized the Hungarian physicians and naturalists meetings and took an interest in scientific research.

The tree named as Petrefactum giganteum Humboldtii[1] (now considered a Pinuxylon) and locally known as "gyurtyánkő lóczá" was being used as a bridge over a stream.

He donated to the establishment of the Hungarian National Museum which his brother Agoston headed.