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Bankovits Kajetan

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Mátyóc, August 10, 1841 – † Budapest, December 7, 1915 / railway construction engineer, sports manager ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Ungvár, graduated in 1859, and obtained an engineering diploma from the Pest Technical University in 1863. He began his practica... Read More

George Gortvay

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* Vajkóc, 16 January 1892 – † Budapest, 22 April 1966 / hygienist, medical historian ; ; He received his diploma from the University of Budapest in 1915. He was interested in health policy, social hygiene, worker protection and medical history, and in 1927 he was qualified as a p... Read More

George Arvay

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* Mátyóc, September 19, 1908 – † Budapest, December 22, 1981 / pharmacist ; ; He completed his studies at the Charles University in Prague, where he graduated in pharmacy in 1931. From 1935 to 1942 he worked as a pharmacist in Nagyszőllős, from 1942 to 1944 in Beregszás, and from... Read More

Lajos Bodnar

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* Mátyóc, August 25, 1922 – † Mátyóc, January 17, 2000 / ethnographic collector, local historian ; ; He graduated from an agricultural vocational school in Munkács (1942), and completed his vocational school diploma in Komárom (1961). He was an agronomist at the Nagykapos Machine... Read More

Katalin Horvath

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* Naszvad, October 22, 1944 – / linguist, associate professor ; ; His family was resettled in Hungary in 1947. He graduated from the Radnóti Miklós Gyakorló Gymnasium in Budapest in 1963. From 1964 he was a student of the Hungarian-library department at the ELTE BTK. Later, inste... Read More

Károly Weszelovský, Veselovský

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* Námesztó, November 2, 1818 – † Árvaváralja, November 12, 1892 / physician, physician-statistician, pioneer of public health reform, meteorological observer ; ; He came from a Slovak family in Árva County. His father moved to Námesztó from the village of Veszele, and the family ... Read More

Gideon Alajos

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* Alsó-Mecenzéf, August 6, 1875 – † Makó, March 2, 1926 / teacher, literary historian, linguist ; ; He completed his secondary education in Rozsnyó, Eperjes and Nagyvárad. At the University of Budapest, as an Eötvös-collegiate student, he obtained a Hungarian-German teaching degr... Read More

Joseph Roob

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* Mecenzéf, July 11, 1879 – † Budapest, November 12, 1953 / ironworks engineer; ; He obtained a diploma from the Academy of Mining and Forestry Engineering in Selmecbánya (1904). In 1904, he began his career in the blast furnace in Resicabánya, from 1906 he managed the coking pla... Read More

Florian August Balogh

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* Melcsic, September 20, 1821 –  †  Felsőkocskóc, September 3, 1898 / Roman Catholic priest, church writer, historian, pomological writer ; ; He came from a noble family. He completed high school with the Piarists in Trenčín and the theological seminary in Nyitra. He was ordained... Read More

Alexander Pajor

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* Melcsic, November 4, 1861 – † Budapest, 1935 / doctor ; ; He began his medical studies in Budapest and completed them in Vienna. In 1886, he practiced medicine at the Rókus Hospital in Budapest, later at the István Hospital. In 1888, he made a longer study trip abroad, and upon... Read More