Matthias Ballo

* Liptószentmiklós, November 30, 1844 – † Rákospalota, September 27, 1930 / ; chemist, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1880) ; ; He completed his secondary education in Késmárk, Rozsnyó and Levoča. In 1864–1866 he studied at the Vienna University of Technology, and in 1866–1868 at the Zurich Technical College, where he obtained a diploma in chemistry. Between 1868–1900 he was a chemistry teacher at the Budapest IV. District High School, and between 1868–1871 he was an assistant to Károly Nendtvich at the Technical University. For ten years (1873–1883) he also worked as the capital's chemist. Between 1883 and 1910 he was the head of the capital's chemical and food testing station, and then the director of the institute established from it. He primarily dealt with analytical chemistry, mineral and drinking water analysis, and food testing. He wrote the first Hungarian chemistry textbook (The Principles of Chemistry, 1872) for secondary schools. ; ; His main works: ; On the chemical relations of the Danube river near Buda-Pest, 1876, ; The drinking waters of the capital Budapest from a health perspective and the analysis of some mineral waters, 1881, ; New studies from the camphor group, 1881.