Florian Charles

* Prešov, January 26, 1878 – † Košice, August 15, 1941 / lawyer, author of travelogues ; ; He completed his secondary education in his hometown, and obtained a doctorate in law from the University of Cluj in 1900. Between 1901 and 1914 he was a teacher at the Prešov Law Academy, and in 1914 he also lectured at the University of Berlin. During World War I he was taken prisoner by the Russians. He learned Russian and lectured on economics at the University of Kharkov. In 1918 he returned to Hungary and became a teacher at the Hungarian-language law academy in Košice. In 1922, after the academy was closed, he retired and returned to Prešov. Between 1924 and 1928 he was the mayor of Prešov. He was a member of the Prešov branch of the Hungarian Carpathian Association, and between 1936 and 1939 he also served as vice-president of the Karpathenverein. He was one of the founders of the Hungarian Scientific, Literary and Artistic Society of Czechoslovakia ("Masaryk Academy"). His ashes were transported from Košice to Prešov and buried there. ; ; He also wrote a book about two Tatra and one Alpine mountain hikes: ; Three Days in the High Tatras, 1904, ; Wanderings in the High Tatras, 1905, ; Among the Tyrolean Mountains, 1904. ; ; Other works: ; Socialism and Private Property, 1901, ; The Municipalities and Voluntary Tax Payment in Ex-Lex, 1903, ; Fundraising in Hungarian Administrative Law, 1904; The Hungarian-Croatian Financial Agreement, 1905; The Tax Reform, 1912.