Gyula Gáyer | |
Birth Date: | 16 February 1883 |
Death Place: | Szombathely, Hungary |
Occupation: | botanist, lawyer, judge |
Gyula Gáyer (16 February 1883, in Kiscell, Hungary, Austria-Hungary – 13 June 1932, in Szombathely, Hungary) was a Hungarian botanist,[1] lawyer, and judge.[2]
His early education was at Celldömölk. At the age of ten, Gáyer came to Szombathely, where he became a pupil of the Premonstratensian grammar school. He finished high school in Budapest. From 1904, he continued his studies at the university in Cluj-Napoca, where he was called to the bar in 1907. From 1914 onward he was a judge.
He described several species and subspecies, including several subspecies of Aconitum napellus.
Several plants bear his name: