John Fabriczy

* Poprad, May 13, 1800 – † Levski, May 13, 1865 / chief county engineer ; ; younger brother of Sámuel Fabriczy. He completed his secondary schooling in Késmárk and Levski. From 1819 he studied at the University of Pest, and from 1820–1821 at the University of Vienna. He received his diploma in 1821 at the Institutum Geometricum in Pest. He worked for one year with Keresztély (Körtvélyes) Raisz, and in 1823 he was appointed engineer of the Crown Estate of Orava County. In 1830 he was the chief engineer of Szepes County. In 1830–1832 he prepared the regulation plan of the Poprad River with the Calvinist pastor József Pazár (?–1860). He participated in the War of Independence, was sentenced to lose his job, but the county of Spiš re-elected him as its trusted engineer. His last known map sheets date from 1838–1839. He often traveled to the High Tatras and reported on his observations in articles. ; ; His main works: ; Elevation relations of the Carpathians (New Hungarian Museum), 1856, ; Alphabetical Directory of measured sea levels in the Central ; Karpaths and their surroundings (Mitthellungen des ungarischen Forstvereins III.), 1857.