Background
He was born in Léva, now in Slovakia (Levice).
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Kalman Kittenberger
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Career
He made six travels to Africa, the first time in 1902, where he was sent by the Hungarian Royal Society in Budapest. He spent altogether ten and a half years in Africa. During his journeys he faced financial difficulties as he received no sponsorship, but he was still able to grant 60,000 items to the biological collections of the Hungarian National Museum, including 300 new animal species.
(Almost 40 of them were named after Kittenberger, including Pachyonomastus kittenbergeri) Participant of that collection was annihilated by a fire in 1956.
