Szent-Ivany, Maria Louise (1919 - 2012)

Born in Budapest, Hungary, on 10th November 1919, died in Adelaide on 9th March 2012 aged 92 years.

Mrs Szent-Ivany (née Lakatos) was born in Budapest, Hungary on 10th November 1919. She was the wife of the well-known entomologist, Joseph Szent-Ivany, who died in 1988 and the daughter of Geza Lakatos, who was for a short time, in 1944, the Prime Minister of Hungary.

As well as sharing her husband's entomological interests Mrs Szent- Ivany was an artist and illustrated David Symon's Solanum revisions in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, although botanical art was not her usual medium.

Source: Extracted from: ASBS Newsletter No.150, March 2012.
Portrait Photo: sent to M.Fagg by Szent-Ivany for a botanical art exhibition at ANBG in 1974