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Wolf of Kempelen

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* Bratislava, January 23, 1734 – † Vienna, March 26, 1804 / court councilor, inventor, technical expert ; ; He began his school studies in his hometown. He studied humanities and law in Győr and Vienna. After the successful translation of Maria Theresa's code of laws into German,... Read More

Lakits George Sigismund

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* Polanic, 25 November 1739 – † Bratislava, 8 January 1814 / lawyer, university professor ; ; Studied in Graz and Vienna. First in Vienna, then from 1769 in Innsbruck, he was a law teacher (ecclesiastical law), from 1770 he was a professor of ecclesiastical law at the University ... Read More

Andras Lehoczky, Lehotzky

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* Lehotzky Bratislava, September 15, 1741 – † Bratislava, April 23, 1813 / lawyer, genealogist ; ; His father, Dániel Lehoczky, was a lawyer and parliamentary envoy, and his maternal grandfather, Mihály Mikos, was a councilor in Bratislava. After completing his studies, he worked... Read More

Ferenc Rausch

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* Prellenkirchen, 13 September 1743 – † Bratislava, 26 January 1816 / mathematician, ; university professor, titular abbot ; ; He completed his studies in Bratislava, entered the Jesuit order in 1761, and then became a teacher at the Theresianum in Vienna. After the dissolution ... Read More

Zach Antal, Baron

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* Bratislava, June 14, 1747 – † Graz, November 22, 1826 / engineer, technical officer ; ; Brother of astronomer Ferenc Xavér Zach. He studied at the Vienna Engineering Academy, first as a lieutenant in the quartermaster's corps, in 1783 as a major, in 1799 as chief of staff of th... Read More

Stephen Lumnitzer

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* Selmecbánya, April 4, 1749 – † Bratislava, January 11, 1806 / physician, botanist, pharmacist ; ; The date and place of his birth were a subject of debate for a long time, as some sources mention Besztercebánya and the year 1740 (e.g. MÉL, Zoltán Gombocz), while according to Sz... Read More

Ferenc Hoeck

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* Bratislava, October 11, 1749 – † Vienna, December 12, 1835 / Jesuit monk, linguist ; ; He entered the Jesuit order in 1765, and from 1777 to 1795 he taught Arabic, Persian and Turkish at the Vienna Oriental Academy. From 1785 he was the director of the institute. From 1795 he w... Read More

Antal Ambschell

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* Győr, March 9, 1751 – † Bratislava, July 14, 1821 / Jesuit monk, physics teacher ; ; He entered the Jesuit order in 1768. He became a doctor of philosophy in Vienna. After the dissolution of the order in 1773, he became a physics teacher at the Laibach Lyceum as a secular pries... Read More

Huszty Zacharias Theophilus

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* Ruszt, March 13, 1754 – † Bratislava, March 29, 1803 / physician, specialist writer ; ; He began his schooling in his hometown and continued in Sopron. He completed his medical studies at the universities of Vienna and Nagyszombat. He was the chief physician of the city of Brat... Read More

Ignat Pongratz

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*  Bratislava, 1754 – † Varasd, after 1804 / chamber director, water and road engineer ; ; He received his diploma from the Collegium Oeconomicum in Senj in 1774. In 1785, he was appointed as an intern at the chamber engineering office in Arad, and was entrusted with the maintena... Read More