Gideon Alajos

* Alsó-Mecenzéf, August 6, 1875 – † Makó, March 2, 1926 / teacher, literary historian, linguist ; ; He completed his secondary education in Rozsnyó, Eperjes and Nagyvárad. At the University of Budapest, as an Eötvös-collegiate student, he obtained a Hungarian-German teaching degree and a doctorate in humanities. On ministerial assignment, he made an extended study trip to France, Austria, Germany and Italy. He also obtained a French language diploma in Paris. Between 1909 and 1920, he lived in Nagyvárad and worked as the director of the secondary school and as the deputy director general of the school district. Due to the harassment of the occupying Romanian authorities, he moved to Makó in 1920, where he was entrusted with the management of the Csanád Vezér Secondary School. He consolidated discipline in the institution and boosted academic results. He primarily wrote literary history and linguistic studies. ; ; His main works: Gergely Csiky as a playwright, 1899, German Heroic Tales, 1904, The Lower Patron Saint; German Dialect, 1905, German Style Exercises, 1906.