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Joseph Szinnyei, Jr.

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* Bratislava, May 26, 1857 – Budapest, April 14, 1943 / linguist, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1896) ; ; Son of the great bibliographer, József Szinnyei (Komárom), brother of the literary historian Ferenc Szinnyei. He obtained his doctorate a... Read More

Joseph Krammer

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* Mágócs, November 18, 1858 – † Bratislava, November 1, 1935 / teacher, educational writer ; ; In 1880 he obtained a civil school teacher's diploma. From 1881 he was the director of the Kismarton state civil school, from 1906–19 of the Bratislava state civil school, and then unti... Read More

Jenő Posch

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* Bratislava, August 4, 1859 – † Budapest, June 23, 1923 / philosopher, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1920) ; ; He obtained a teaching certificate in Hungarian-philosophy and then Latin-German at the University of Budapest in 1881. In 1884–1885 he was... Read More

István Bordan

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* Bratislava, December 24, 1859 – † Budapest, December 1, 1930 / stationmaster, archaeologist, naturalist; ; from 1879 stationmaster in the village of Puj in Hunedoara County. After twenty-five years of railway service, he retired and took a daily wage job as an accountant at the... Read More

Dezső Velits

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* Cluj-Napoca, April 23, 1860 – Bratislava, February 7, 1921 / physician, gynecologist, university professor ; ; He received his doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Budapest in 1885. Between 1890 and 1914, he was the director of the midwifery training scho... Read More

Jacob Fischer

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* Dunaföldvár, 1861 – † Budapest, December 17, 1920 / chief physician of the Bratislava hospital, psychiatrist ; ; He spent his childhood in Makó, where his father was the city's rabbi. He graduated from high school in Szeged, studied medicine at the universities of Budapest and ... Read More

Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard

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* (Bratislava, 7 June 1862 – † Messelhausen, Germany, 20 May 1947 / physicist, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1907), Nobel Prize winner (1905) ; ; He was of German origin, he graduated from the Hungarian-language secondary school in Bratislava ... Read More

Kalman Adda

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* Borcsány, July 30, 1862 – † Bratislava, June 26, 1901 / geologist, academic teacher ; ; He was the scion of a wealthy mining family in Trenčín County. He completed his elementary and secondary school education in Nyíregyháza, Bratislava and Nagyszombat, then graduated from the ... Read More

Henrik Sabransky

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* Bratislava, April 23/24, 1864 – † Söchau, Austria, December 23, 1915 / physician, botanist, entomologist, moss researcher ; ; He completed his high school studies in his hometown, studied medicine at the University of Vienna, and obtained his medical degree in 1890. For a short... Read More

Louis Kemeny

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* Károlyháza, August 8, 1864 – † Bratislava, February 2, 1948 / publicist, historian ; ; His father was a farm officer on various Pálffy estates. He spent his childhood in Bátorkesz, and completed his secondary school studies in Esztergom and Budapest. In 1884, he settled in Brat... Read More