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Philip Sigismund

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* Komárom, 1878 ?. – † Komárom, 1940 ? / cultural historian ; ; He graduated from high school in his hometown and earned a law degree from the University of Budapest. Between the two world wars, he was a bank director, one of the organizers of Komárom's cultural life, and the lea... Read More

Beke (Berger) Ödön

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* Komárom, 20 May 1883 – † Budapest, 10 April 1964 / linguist, ; university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He began his secondary education at the Komárom gymnasium and completed his secondary education at the Reformed Gymnasium in Pápa. He obtained a ... Read More

John Selye

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* Vienna, January 26, 1907 – † Montreal, October 15, 1982 / physician, internist, university ; teacher ; ; His father was Hungarian, his mother was Austrian. He spent his childhood in Komárom, graduating from the Benedictine Gymnasium in Komárom in 1924. He also studied in Paris ... Read More

Gabor Lukő

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* Komárom, 4 November 1909 – † Budapest, 21 April 2001 / ethnographer, Kossuth- ; prize winner (2001) ; ; He began his studies in his hometown, continued at the universities of Budapest and Bucharest, and obtained his doctoral degree in 1936. He was a student of Sándor Karácsony,... Read More

Antal Solyi

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* Komárom, 6 May 1913 – † ? 1946 / mathematician ; ; Graduated from Zalaegerszeg. In 1931 he won a shared second prize at the national physics competition (Ágoston Budó, later a distinguished professor of physics, was the other winner, the first prize was not awarded). In 1936 he... Read More

Miklos Herczegh

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* Komárom, May 3, 1919 – † Budapest, October 19, 1976 / physician, orthopedic surgeon ; ; He obtained his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine of the Budapest University of Science and Technology in 1943. He served as a military doctor in the last years of World War II. Be... Read More

Arpad Kezdi (Kalcher)

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* Komárom, November 19, 1919 – † Budapest, October 20, 1983 / civil engineer, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He obtained his architectural engineering degree from the József Nádor University of Technology and Economics in Budapest in 1942. H... Read More

Polish Fairy

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* Komárom, September 9, 1960 – / historian, archivist ; ; He completed his primary and secondary education in Košice (1979), and obtained an archivist diploma from the Comenius University in Bratislava (1985). Since 1987, he has been an employee of the Institute of History of the... Read More

Zoltán Szenássy

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* Komárom, October 10, 1925 – † Komárom, November 28, 2011 / teacher, local historian ; ; He graduated from Pápán (1944), and obtained a teaching certificate in Hungarian history from the Faculty of Education of the University of Bratislava (1955). From 1951 to 1985, he was a tea... Read More

Zoltán Szeberényi

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* Komárom, August 11, 1930 – / literary historian, literary critic, university lecturer ; ; After his elementary school studies, he worked as a worker in the Komárom shipyard. He graduated from the mechanical engineering technical school in the evening department in 1953. After h... Read More