Stephen Batta

* Beje, July 12, 1882 – † Sárospatak, July 30, 1926 / secondary school teacher specializing in mathematics and physics, high school principal, university private tutor ; ; His father, György Batta, was a pastor. István Batta completed his elementary school education at the Berzéte and Simony public schools, and graduated from the high school in Rimaszombat in 1899. He obtained his teaching certificate at the Ferenc József University of Science in Cluj-Napoca, and then received his doctorate in physics from Károly Tangl (1969–1940) there. He was sent on a study trip to Germany from the Reformed High School in Békés, and upon returning home he became an enthusiastic supporter of Hungarian educational reform attempts. In 1917, István Schneller invited him to the practical gymnasium organized at the Kolozsvár teacher training institute, where he became a teacher and then director. In 1919, the school was taken over by the Romanian authorities. He and his family had to move to Pelsőc, a territory under Czech occupation at the time, near his birthplace. He was able to return to Hungary in 1920, and taught at the Reformed College in Sárospatak until his death, although he could have also taught at the University of Debrecen or taken the director's chair of the Baár-Madas Institute in Budapest. His work in physics methodology and didactics is significant, within the framework of which he was the first to deal with the history of the Hungarian physics language. His early death was caused by laryngeal cancer. ; ; Main works: ; The historical teaching of physics, 1913, The history of Hungarian Latin-language physical literature, é. n., ; The history of the domestic literature of the physical sciences and the development of the Hungarian constructed language until 1867 I-III.. 1922.