[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The construction of a two-storey building for the Imperial and Royal Military School in T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219, at the foot of the Corne\u0219ti Plateau, began in 1906. The arrangement of the park and the planting of ornamental trees and shrubs around the building began in 1908. The Dendrological Park formed around the building was entrusted to the Botany Discipline of the Faculty of Pharmacy in 1948. Over the years the diversity of woody plants from the Dendrological Park has been enriched, so now there are about 175 plant taxa, derived from exchanges of biological materials or from collecting species from spontaneous flora.<\/p>\n
The Botanical Garden from T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219 was established together with the Faculty of Pharmacy, in 1948, by the head of the Pharmaceutical Botany discipline, Dr. Jablonkay Istv\u00e1n. The Botanical Garden Commission was composed of: the chairman of the commission-dean Professor Dr. Haranghy L\u00e1szl\u00f3, the head of the Botany discipline and the general director of the commission-Lecturer Dr. Jablonkay Istv\u00e1n, the director of the Institute of Biology-Professor Dr. Sz\u00e9kely K\u00e1roly, trainee \u00c1d\u00e1m Lajos, trainee Kov\u00e1cs Ibolya, gardener-Somodi \u00c1rp\u00e1d, commission representative-S\u00fct\u0151 Istv\u00e1n, student organization representative-trainee R\u00e1cz G\u00e1bor, botanist Nagy \u00d6d\u00f6n, honorary member-agronomist engineer Csontos J\u00e1nos, the head of the Pharmacognosy discipline-Professor Dr. Kopp Elem\u00e9r, and the head of Galenica discipline-Lecturer Dr. Hank\u00f3 Zolt\u00e1n. Before being invited to organize and coordinate the Pharmaceutical Botany discipline, Associate Professor Dr. Jablonkay Istv\u00e1n (1913-2000) was a Geography and Natural Sciences teacher at the Roman Catholic Gymnasium from T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219. The first works for the Botanical Garden were marking the terrain designated for arrangement and fencing the territory. The land included a small portion of oak forest (the lower part of the Plateau Corne\u015fti forest), a shooting polygon, a tennis court, a bowling alley and an orchard with fruit trees. Thus, in order to put the Botanical Garden into function as soon as possible, the members of the Pharmaceutical Botany discipline, in addition to the scientific contribution, had to make a substantial physical effort. The floristic diversity of the Botanical Garden has been enriched by planting several perennial herbaceous species, trees and shrubs. Seeds from 800 plant species were brought from the Botanical Garden of Cluj. The first scientific collaborator of the Botanical Garden was Lecturer Dr. Cseh Halm\u00e1gyi Anna (1951-1953). She designed the systematic sector of the garden. In the first decades, the Botanical Garden was coordinated by the discipline of Pharmaceutical Botany. The heads of this discipline were: Associate Professor Dr. Jablonkay Istv\u00e1n (1948-1952), Professor Dr. R\u00e1cz G\u00e1bor (1952-1963), Professor Dr. F\u0171zi J\u00f3zsef (1964-1997), Associate Professor Dr. Kisgy\u00f6rgy Zolt\u00e1n (1997-1998), and Professor Dr. Oroian Silvia (1998-2018). Currently, the discipline is led by Associate Professor Dr. Tanase Corneliu. The administration of the Botanical Garden will be taken over by agronomy specialists: agronomist engineer Sz\u00e9kely Gyula (since 1968), agronomist engineer Alm\u0103\u0219an Lenu\u021ba (since 1986) and agronomist engineer Hiri\u021biu Mariana (since 1996 until now).<\/p>\n
At the initiative of Professor Dr. R\u00e1cz G\u00e1bor, in 1959 the first issue of the Seed Catalog was published. During that period, Associate Professor Dr. Kisgy\u00f6rgy Zolt\u00e1n was in charge of ensuring the quality and identity of the seeds. Starting with 1964, the seed catalog will have an annex with scientific publications that present the research carried out by the members of Pharmaceutical Botany, Pharmacognosy and other related disciplines.<\/p>\n
The initiative to establish the Garden of Medicinal Plants in T\u00e2rgu Mure\u015f belonged to Professor Dr. Kopp Elem\u00e9r (1890-1964), who organized and coordinated the discipline of Pharmacognosy from its beginnings, until 1961. Professor Kopp Elem\u00e9r came to T\u00e2rgu Mure\u015f with a vast experience in the field, accumulated in the over 20 years (1923-1945) spent at the Experimental Station of Medicinal Plants from Cluj, where he laid the foundations of phytochemical research. In the first 10 years he had the chance to be the collaborator of Professor P\u00e1ter B\u00e9la (1860-1938), the founder of the famous Experimental Station of Medicinal Plants from Cluj. The establishment of the Station aimed the introduction in culture of indigenous medicinal plants from the spontaneous flora, but also of some non-native species and the determination of their active principles. Professor Kopp Elem\u00e9r was the last director of the experimental station, until its close down in 1945. In a very short time, Professor Kopp Elem\u00e9r organized the Garden of Medicinal Plants at T\u0171rgu Mure\u0219 and planted about 125 species, most of the plants being brought from the Experimental Station from Cluj and from the Digitalis cooperative from Or\u0103\u015ftie, founded by Farag\u00f3 Endre. The garden has been fenced since the spring of 1949. Professor Kopp Elem\u00e9r established a school of pharmacognosy in T\u00e2rgu Mure\u015f with a modern phytochemical orientation, giving priority to the knowledge of active principles of plants. Also he paid attention to the introduction of medicinal plants into cultures and plant breeding. The Garden of Medicinal Plants in the first years was coordinated by the discipline of Pharmacognosy. In 1961 the scientific management of both gardens (Botanical Garden and Medicinal Plants Garden) was entrusted to Professor R\u00e1cz G\u00e1bor, a position he held until 1991. The heads of the Pharmacognosy discipline were: Professor Dr. Kopp Elem\u00e9r (1948-1961), Professor Dr. R\u00e1cz G\u00e1bor (1961-1991), Professor Dr. Csed\u0151 K\u00e1roly (1991-2000), and Associate Professor Dr. E\u0219ianu Sigrid (2000-2018). Currently the discipline is led by Lecturer Dr. Laczk\u00f3-Z\u00f6ld Eszter.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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