The forgotten researcher of heredity in Kőszeg

The idea of artificial selection was transferred from England to Central Europe, including Kőszeg, at the end of the 18th century where it became a science through the work of Imre Festetics. From 1827 onwards the issue of heredity in animals developed further into an academic discipline which was taught at universities. The debate on breeding in Brno (1836-1837) also led to the formulation of the scientific question of heredity, namely: "what is inherited and how?" The goal of Central European experts was to qualitatively improve breeding rates through hereditary variation, and therefore they failed to provide a coherent explanatory framework to account for natural selection processes.Peer reviewe