Bokor, Elemér

Elemér Bokor was born on the 19th of January 1887, at Sátoraljaújhely, in the North- Eastern corner of Hungary. As a young man he was already interested in entomology and in the beetles which lived in caves. Although he received a military education, he carried on with his nature studies, and in 1913 he published some important works on the blind cave-dwelling beetles (új vakbogarak Magyarország faunájából. Annales Musei Nat. Hung. XI., 1913, and Három új vakbogár Magyarország faunájából. Annales Musei Nat. Hung. XI., 1913). He fought on the Russian Front in World War I as a professional officer of the Austro-Hungarian army. He suffered the life of a prisoner of war in Russia for some years. On his return to Hungary in 1921 he researched the arthropod fauna of 102 caves. In 1923 he surveyed the Abaligeti Cave and the result of this work formed the basis for his doctoral dissertation. He received his doctorate in 1924. Elemér Bokor devoted his life to the research of the Hungarian...