Gyula Madarász

Madarász travelled to every part of Hungary over the course of his career, and authored a number of authoritative works on the birds of central Europe.

In 1884, he founded the German-language ornithological journal Zeitschrift für die gesamte Ornithologie, which he published and edited for five years, as well as contributing to the wealth of illustrations that it contained.

From 1894 to 1893, he published Magyarország Madarai, a comprehensive and well-illustrated encyclopedia of Hungarian birds, that remained an important reference for decades.

[1] Madarász also undertook collecting trips and expeditions around western Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, making him one of the first Hungarian ornithologists to extend his studies beyond the local avifauna.

[1] A species of bird, Madarasz's tiger parrot (Psittacella madaraszi), was named after Gyula Madarász by Adolf Bernhard Meyer in 1886.