Repository

Henrik Berzeviczy

Other - other

* Hámbor, November 1, 1652 – † Bánya-Biszterce, June 20, 1713 / Jesuit monk, doctor of philosophy and theology, mathematician, university professor ; ; He completed his university studies in Nagyszombat in 1672 and taught there for a short time, then between 1673 and 1676 he was ... Read More

Marcinka Darina

Other - other

* Hanva, July 20, 1935 – / anthropologist, associate professor ; ; He earned a teaching certificate in biology and geography from the Comenius University in Bratislava. In 1961–1999, he was a lecturer at the Department of Biology of the Pedagogical College in Nitra (currently Con... Read More

Bela Laszlo

Other - other

* Hanva, July 4, 1940 – / mathematician, university teacher ; ; He graduated from Tornalján in 1957. He obtained a mathematics-descriptive geometry teacher's diploma from the Pedagogical College in Bratislava in 1961. Candidate of mathematical sciences (1979). From 1963, he was a... Read More

Hell Joseph Charles

Other - other

* Hegybánya, June 15, 1713 – † Hegybánya, March 11, 1789 / chief mine engineer, mining machine designer ; ; He was a student of Sámuel Mikoviny at the mining officer training school in Selmecbánya. At the age of twenty-two, in 1735, he had already assembled a swing-box water lift... Read More

Hello Miksa Rudolf

Other - other

* Hegybánya, 15 May 1720 – † Vienna, 14 April 1792 / astronomer ; ; He is the first in the Höll family whose name was used exclusively in the form Hell. Most encyclopedias and biographies list Selmecbánya as his birthplace, but he was most likely born in nearby Hegybánya. Hell wa... Read More

Emil Vaitzik

Other - other

* Hegybánya, August 9, 1867 – † Miskolc, 1936 / forestry engineer, entomologist ; ; He is considered to be of Slovak origin, originally named Vajcík. Between 1878 and 1886, he completed his secondary education in Selmecbánya, first at the Catholic gymnasium and then at the Evange... Read More

Sandor Javorka

Other - other

* Hegybánya, March 12, 1883 – † Budapest, September 28, 1961 / botanist, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Selmecbánya. He received his doctorate in humanities from the Budapest University of Science... Read More

Ferenc Revay

Other - other

* Hegybánya, March 6, 1887 – † Pilisszentiván, October 27, 1974 / forestry engineer, cave explorer, technical inventor ; ; He obtained a diploma from the Mining and Forestry Academy in Selmecbánya (1913). From 1913 he worked in Lippa, then in Recsk, and from 1926 at the Miskolc F... Read More

Gustav Faller

Other - other

* Hegybánya, February 23, 1892 – † Budapest, July 22, 1968 / mining engineer, natural gas explorer ; ; He graduated from the Selmecbánya Mining and Forestry Academy in 1914. He participated in World War I as a soldier. From 1919 he worked as a plant engineer at the Royal Hungaria... Read More

Zoltán Reguly

Other - other

* Hegybánya, September 13, 1904 – † Budapest, February 19, 1952 / mechanical engineer, inventor ; ; At the age of 18, the Patent Court accepted one of his invention applications. He obtained an engineering degree from the Budapest University of Technology in 1927. From then on, h... Read More