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Joseph Kayling

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* Selmecbánya, 7 January 1725 – † Bélabánya, after 1780 / Jesuit missionary, South American ; traveler ; ; He studied at the Nagyszombat College and then at the Košice College. He was a teacher at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Eprejes for two years. In 1753, in Portuguese service, he s... Read More

Bernat Benyák

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* Komárom, December 6, 1745 –  † Selmecbánya, March 1, 1829 / Piarist priest, teacher ; ; He was a teacher in many places, the director of the Székesfehérvár gymnasium. He was the first to teach philosophy in Hungarian at the Pest Lyceum and wrote his philosophical works in Hunga... Read More

Janos György Hoffinger

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* Brassó, July 9, 1756 – † Vienna, 1792 ? / Chief physician of the mining chamber in Selmecbánya ; ; He obtained his medical degree in Vienna in 1780. He practiced medicine in Zalatná, Oravicabánya, and then was chief physician of the mining chamber in Selmecbánya. Here he descri... Read More

Andras Rafel Wolny

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* Selmecbánya, December 10, 1759 – † Nagymuzsaj/Ukraine, October 17, 1827 / botanist, mineralogist, teacher ; ; He studied at the gymnasium in Selmecbánya and Bratislava, from 1780 he was a student at the Piarist seminary in Rózsaheg, then studied philosophy at the University of ... Read More

Janos Breznyik

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* Iklad, 1815 – † Selmecbánya, May 8, 1897 / director of the Evangelical Lyceum of Selmecbánya ; ; He completed his secondary schooling in Aszód, Selmecbánya and Bratislava. He was a university student in Jena and Halle. In February 1842, he returned to Selmecbánya, where he beca... Read More

Gustav Richter

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* Selmecbánya, July 12, 1825 – † Selmecbánya, February 4, 1902 / mining engineer, inventor ; ; He completed his secondary and higher education in his hometown, graduating from the Academy in 1850. He served in several places in the country, but spent most of his life in Selmecbán... Read More

Pachinger Alajos

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* Steffultó/Selmecbánya, June 5, 1846 – † Timisoara, September 11, 1913 / religious teacher, biologist, zoologist, stenographer ; ; Born in the Steffultó mining settlement belonging to Selmecbánya, he entered the Piarist order in 1863 and was ordained a priest in 1870. In 1881, a... Read More

Kalman Haiczl

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* Selmecbánya, October 14, 1866 – † Budapest, February 1, 1952 / Catholic parish priest, church historian, archivist, local historian ; ; He completed his secondary schooling in his hometown, Bratislava and Esztergom, and completed his theology there in 1887. In 1888 he obtained ... Read More

Imre Pöschl

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* Selmecbánya, November 25, 1871 – † Budapest, March 4, 1963 / mechanical engineer, teacher at the Technical University ; ; son of Ede Pöschl. He completed his secondary school studies in his hometown. He obtained his diploma at the Budapest Technical University in 1893. From 189... Read More

Pattantyús-Abraham

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* Selmecbánya, December 11, 1885 – † Budapest, September 29, 1956 / mechanical engineer, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1945), Kossuth Prize winner (1952) ; ; His father was Márton Pattantyús-Ábrahám (Trencsén), his mother was Ilo... Read More