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Erno Ozogany

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* Budapest, May 14, 1951 – † Bratislava, August 2, 2017 / electrical engineer, writer on the history of technology and cultural history ; ; His parents were resettled in Hungary after 1945, and he returned to Czechoslovakia, Tejfalu, when he was four years old. He began his schoo... Read More

Adam Louis

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* Tergenye. 1 May 1879 – † Budapest, 17 November 1946 / surgeon, university professor ; ; He obtained his medical degree in Budapest in 1904. At the beginning of his medical career, he was an assistant physician under Professor Hümér Hültl. From 1912, he was an assistant professo... Read More

Adam Ferenc Kollar

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* Terhely, April 15, 1718 – † Vienna, July 15, 1783 / Slovak-born jurist, court councilor, director of the Vienna royal library ; ; He completed his studies in Bány Beszterce and Selmecbánya, then in Nagyszombat. In 1737 he entered the Jesuit order. He then worked as a high schoo... Read More

Artur Görgei, Görgey

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* Toporc, January 30, 1818 – † Budapest, May 21, 1916 / chemist, army general, minister of war; ; He himself wrote his name as Görgei in his will, but the form Görgey appears in many places. His father married a lower-ranking person, so the family struggled with constant financia... Read More

Daniel Irányi, Halbschuh

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* Toporc, February 24, 1822 – † Nyíregyháza, November 2, 1892 / politician, publicist, historian ; ; He completed his secondary schooling in Prešov, Késmárk and Rozsnyó, studied philosophy and law at the Prešov Evangelical Lyceum, where he was the president of the Hungarian Youth... Read More

Cörver Elek

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* Torna, 19 May 1714 – †  Nyitra, 4 June 1747 / Piarist teacher, textbook writer; ; Brother of János Nepomuk Cörver. His pen name was Alexius a Sancta Maria Magdalena. He received his highest training in Rome. He entered the order in Privigyé, where his teacher was József Ince De... Read More

Geza Zemplén

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* Trenčín, October 26, 1883 – † Budapest, July 24, 1956 / organic chemist, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1927) ; ; Győző Zemplén (Nagykanizsa, October 17, 1879 – Monte Doloro, June 29, 1916) was the younger brother of physicist and university ... Read More

Gyula Osvath

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* Tornalja, 6 May 1887 – † Feled, 11 September 1957 / lawyer, legal writer, legal historian ; ; Until 1920 he was a teacher at the Košice Law Academy, after which he worked as a lawyer there. In 1929 he opened a law office in Bratislava. In the 1930s he moved to Feled and lived t... Read More

János Kósa, Creamer

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* Tornalja, August 19, 1914 – † New York, April 1973 / sociologist, historian, writer, university professor ; ; He graduated from the Piarist Gymnasium in Budapest, then studied history at the Pázmány Péter University and received his doctorate there in 1937. In 1937–1938 he was ... Read More

Laszlo Miklos

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* Tornalja, January 24, 1949 – / ecologist, university professor, politician ; ; He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown, graduating from the Hungarian gymnasium in 1968. He graduated from the Comenius University in Bratislava with a degree in natural and... Read More