Tomb of Charles Conlegner

Károly Conlegner (Érsekújvár, October 18, 1812 – Néver, December 21, 1892) was a teacher of arithmetic and bookkeeping, rector of the Technical University, economist, economic writer, and royal councilor. ; His father, Nándor Conlegner, was a merchant and later a city councilor. He graduated from high school in Nagyszombat in 1826 and completed his higher education at the commercial course of the Vienna Technical University. He then got a job in a Viennese wholesaler, later returned home and ran his father's business. ; From November 1, 1846, he became a teacher of arithmetic and bookkeeping at the József Ipartanoda. ; During the revolution and war of independence of 1848–49, he was the chief commissioner of the banknote printing press. He formulated the multilingual prohibition text of the Hungarian banknote and kept the Money Inventory. After the evacuation of the printing house, he followed it to Debrecen, and from February 1849 he worked as its director. After the surrender of Világos, he had to flee. During the period of reprisals, Count Nádasdy hid him on his estate as a tutor. He created the financial resources of the Nádasdy Foundation at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Later, he taught German, geography and history at the Joseph Industrial School. ; From May 25, 1857, he was a public full-time professor of German law and accounting at the Royal Joseph Technical University, and in the 1872/73 academic year he was elected the second rector of the university. At the opening ceremony, on November 6, he took up his rector's chair by outlining the development of humanism and realism. ; In 1864, together with Baron József Eötvös, he founded the First Hungarian Industrial Bank, of which Eötvös was its president and he was its vice president. After the resignation of József Eötvös, he served as president until 1871. He retired on July 9, 1877, and retired to his estate in Névér. ; His student Kálmán Szily remembered him in the yearbook of the Technical University: Despite all difficulties, Conlegner served the rise of industry and youth throughout his life.