Jenő Faller

* Selmecbánya, September 25, 1894 – † Sopron, December 23, 1966 / mining engineer, museum director ; ; son of Károly Faller. He received his diploma from the Mining and Forestry College in Selmecbánya. From 1919 he worked at the Hungarian General Coal Mine Co. Ltd. in Tatabánya, and from 1922 at the Dorog mining of the Salgótarján Coal Mine Co. Ltd. He directed the geological research through which the Nagyegyháza and Dudar coal basins became known. From 1929 he was a plant manager in Várpalota, from 1940 he was a director in Bánfalva, where he was the first to use frontal mining in northern Hungary, from 1946 he was the head of the Transdanubian coal mining district in Várpalota, from 1948–1949 he was the general manager of the coal industry center there, from 1950 he was an associate professor at the Technical University of Heavy Industry in Sopron. In 1957, as a result of his life's work, the Central Mining Museum was opened in Sopron. After the Faculty of Mining Engineering moved to Miskolc, he was the director of the museum, which he developed to international importance. In his studies, which number more than three hundred, he primarily dealt with the past of Hungarian mining. ; ; His main works: ; ; History of Jásd village, 1934, ; Monograph of Inota village, 1934, ; Várpalota in the geographical, mineralogical, geological and natural history literature, 1934, ; Data on the destruction of Bakony, 1936, ; History of Várpalota during the time of the Újlakians ; and the Podmaniczkys, 1936, ; A short history of the castle of Palota, 1937, ; Pioneers of Hungarian mining mechanization, 1953.