Lajos Méhelÿ, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lajos Méhelÿ

Hungarian zoologist

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1862

Place of Birth: Bodrogkisfalud, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary

Date of Death: 04-Feb-1953

Profession: zoologist, biologist, herpetologist

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Lajos Méhelÿ (August 24, 1862 – February 4, 1953) was a Hungarian zoologist, herpetologist, professor, and prolific author.
He is one of the greatest, but also one of the most controversial, personalities in the history of Hungarian zoology because of his Social Darwinist and racialist publications.
He had been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences but renounced his membership. Besides his zoological work he increasingly dedicated his life to the Hungarian racial theory and Turanism.
As a result, he was imprisoned after the Second World War and spent his punishment as a war criminal against the people until his death in old age.