Jozef Ľudovít Holuby was born in Lubina on 25th March, 1836 and studied Lutheran theology in Bratislava and Vienna. For a brief period he was chaplain in Skalica, and from 1861 to 1909 Lutheran pastor at Zemianske Podhradie. He lived in retirement in Pezinok for thirteen years, and died there on 15th June, 1923. Alongside his vocation he engaged in ethnography, archaeology, ecclesiastical history and botany, the latter being his greatest love. He was the first specialist in the former Hungarian state in complex Rubus (blackberry) genuses. He was the first to set down the taxonomy of various plants, while others...