Bartoniek Geza

* Szuha, September 5, 1854 – † Budapest, February 11, 1930 / physicist ; ; He began his secondary school studies in Nagyszombat and completed them at the Royal Catholic Gymnasium in Bratislava. He completed his university studies in Budapest from 1874, where he was Loránd Eötvös's assistant at the Physics Institute from 1879 to 1886. He then worked as a teacher at the Budapest Civil School Teacher Training College, and in 1895 the then Minister of Culture, Loránd Eötvös, entrusted him with the establishment of the Eötvös József College. As its director (until 1927), he organized the scientific training of secondary school teachers at a high level, and in 1921 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Budapest University of Science and Technology. He wrote several treatises on electricity, mostly published in the Journal of Natural Sciences (TK), as well as in the Mathematician and Natural Sciences Bulletin and the Mathematician and Physical Papers, which he also edited. His son inherited his talent as a physicist, but he died young in World War I. His daughter, Emma Bartoniek (1894–1957), was an excellent historian and bibliographer. ; ; His main works: ; Electric hearing and speaking device. Photophone (TK), 1882, ; The unusual redness of the sky in 1883 (TK), 1884, ; A new method for determining the speed of sound propagation (Academic Bulletin), 1886, ; Acoustic experiments (TK), 1889, ; The relationship of electrical and light phenomena (TK), 1889.