> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 747](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333886) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9897-1) LSID 9897-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281645) QID Q281645 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sóo \[von Bere\], \[Károly\] Rezsö (1903-1980), Hungarian botanist, high school education at Kolozsvár (Cluj) 1913-1921; studied at Budapest University 1921-1925; Dr. phil. ib. 1925; at Berlin-Dahlem 1925-1927; at the Tihany biological institute 1927-1929; e.o. professor of botany at the University of Debrecen 1929-1935; Ordinarius and director of the botanical institute ib. 1925-1940; idem at the Museum Transilvanicum Kolozvár (Cluj) 1940-1944; again at Debrecen 1940-1955; director of the institute of systematic botany and geobotany of the University of Budapest 1953-1969; Dr. h.c. Debrecen 1973. **Abbreviated name**: *Sóo* \[standard form in IPNI: *Soó*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BPU|BPU]], [[Collection CL|CL]], [[Collection DE|DE]]. – See Bot. Közl. 59: 211-214. 1973. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 303; BFM 1487-1489, 1728, 2357-2359; Biol.-Dokum. 17: 8776; Bossert p. 376; Futak-Domin p. 551-554 (bibl.); GR p. 660-661; Hirsch p. 281; Hortus 3: 1204; IH 1 (ed. 1): 30, (ed. 2): 47, (ed. 3): 35, 55, (ed. 4): 37, (ed. 5): 30, (ed. 6): 40, 364, (ed. 7): 343, 2: (files); MW p. 462; Roon p. 106; TL-2/3565; Zander ed. 10, p. 719, ed. 11, p. 820. #### Biofile - Anon., Act. bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 26: 231-233. 1980 (in memoriam, portr.); \[collaborator BPU\], Ad honorem Academici professons Rezsö Sóo Sexagesimi, Budapest 1963, 21 p. (curriculum vitae, reference to bibliographies; lists of taxa named by Soo, eponymy); Hedwigia 70: (74). 1930 (app. Debrecen), 75: (167). 1936 (ord. prof. Debrecen); Österr. bot. Z. 79: 1930 (app. Debrecen); Taxon 29: 548. 1980 (d. 10 Feb 1980). - Borsos, O. & K. Senghas, Die Orchidee 31(1): 184-185. 1980 (obit., portr.); Jahresber. nat.-Ver. Wuppertal 33: 175-176. 1980 (id.). - Hortobágyi, T., ed., et al., Acta bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 19(1-4): iii-xi. 1973 (biogr., main publ., portrait, medal, eponymy, list of students and collaborators). Horváth, I., Bol. Közl. 65(3): 125-128. 1978 (1979). - Lewytzkyj, B. & J. Stroynowski, eds., Who's who in the socialist countries 578. 1978. - Máthé, I., Bot. Közl. 67(3): 161-165. 1981 (obit., portr., list of biogr. and bibl. publ.). - Priszter, S., Biol. Közl. 15: 38-39. 1967. - Soo, R., \[Lists of publications in\] Inst. bot. Univ. Debrec, publ. 1921-1931, 4 p.; A debreceni Egyetemi novénytani intézet es botanicus kert 10 éve 1929-1939. Debrecen 1940; id. 1940-1949. Debrecen 1949; A kolozsvári Ferenc József Tudományegyetem ... tanárainak... munkássáya, Kolosvar 1944, p. 311-340; Publicationes membrorum Inst. bot. Univ. L. Kossuth Debreceniensis (iii) 1950-1954, id. Inst. syst.-geob. Univ. ... Budapestinensis 1953-1958, 1950-1960, 1961-1963; Opera botanica Academici Prof. Univ. R. Sóo 1921-1966, Budapest 1967, (bibl.), 17 p.; Bot. Közl. 59: 211-214. 1973 ("Meine Pflanzensammeltätigkeit 1917-1968; lists his collections; in all nearly 100.000 specimens); Species, formae, combinationes novae a prof. de Soó 1921-1939 descritae, Appendix, Melléklet a Debreceni Egyetem Növénytani Intezetének beszámvlójához, s.d., p. 1-26. - Verseghy, K., Feddes Repert. 68(1): 126. 1963. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chon. bot. 1: 30, 183. 1935, 2: 202. 1936, 3: 174, 176, 177, 351, 374. 1937, 6: 16, 141, 306, 324. 1941. - Wendelberger, G., Verh. zool.-bot. Ges., Wien 118-119: 11. 1980. #### Composite works - (1) Co-author, G. Keller et al., *Monogr. Iconogr, Orchid. Eur.* 1928-1943, 5 vols., TL-2/3565. - (2) Editor *Acta botanica hungarica* (1936-1949), *Scripta botanica Musci Transsilvanici* (1942-1944), *Magyar flóramüvek* 1-7, 1937-1949; *Fontes florae hungaricae* 1943-1944; *Annales biol. Univ. Debrecen* (1950-1954); *Acta botanica Acad. Sci. Hung.* (1954-1972). - (3) Die Orchideen Europas und des Mediterrangebiets I., *in* E. Hannig & H. Winkler, *Die Pflanzenareale* ser. 3, 7, maps 61-70. 1932. #### Festschrift Acta bot. Acad. Sci. Hungar. 19, 1973 (biogr. notice on p. iii-xi). #### Note Main post-1939 work: *A magyar flóra* és vegetáció rendszertani-növényföldrajzi kézîkönyve, 5 vols., Budapest 1964-1973, see e.g. F. Markgraf, Bot. Jahrb. 87(4): (bibl.): 24-25. 1967 (vol. 1-2), 89 (bibl.): 50. 1970 (vol. 3): 91 (bibl.): 14. 1971 (vol. 4), 93 (bibl.): 37-38. 1973 (vol. 5); A. Löve, Taxon 16: 207-208. 1967 (vols. 1-2); Stafleu, F.A., Taxon 20: 630-631. 1971 (vol. 4), 22: 469-470. 1973 (vol. 5). – Additions Bot. Közl. 65: 149-164. 1978 (1979). #### Eponymy *Sooia* T. Pocs (1973); *Sooisporites* Nagy (1968).