Ottmar Gergelyi

* Busóc, September 28, 1919 – † Nitra, March 13, 1995 / archivist, local historian ; ; He completed his elementary school and high school studies in Késmárk, and finally finished them in Bratislava, where they moved after his father's death (1938). He studied history and German at the Faculty of Humanities of the Slovak University in Bratislava. In 1942, he became the librarian of the archaeological seminary. In 1944, he was arrested for his participation in the Slovak National Uprising, but after the front moved through, in 1945, he was captured by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. In 1948, he was entrusted with organizing the Andrássy family's library in Homonná, and in the meantime, he established the district branch of the Agricultural Archives. From 1952 he was the head of the Nitra branch of the Agricultural Archives. In 1956 he became an employee of the Nitra State Archives and worked there until 1965, when for health reasons he was transferred to the Nitra Agricultural Museum, where he worked as a historian until his retirement. Between 1976 and 1983 he taught musical instrument history as a lecturer at the Bratislava Academy of Music. His writings were published in Slovak. ; ; His main works: ; Hornád v praveku so zvěstným zreteľom na územie ČSR (Hornád in Prehistory, with Special Attention to the Territory of Czechoslovakia), 1949, ; Historické organy na Slovensku (Historical Organs in Slovakia, co-author), 1982–1989.