John Gomory

* Nyíregyháza, May 12, 1869 – † Budapest, May 7, 1966 / historian, teacher, public writer ; ; He completed his secondary school studies at the Prešov Evangelical College, and then obtained a Hungarian-history teaching diploma at the University of Cluj. Between 1897 and 1926, he was a teacher at the Prešov College’s high school, and from 1903 he was its principal. After the change of empire in 1918, Slovak became the language of instruction at the high school, but he was retained as principal until the last Hungarian class graduated (1926). He was highly respected, so when he left for Košice in 1930, the people of Prešov gave him a ceremonial farewell. In 1932, he was the general secretary and from 1938 until its dissolution in 1945, the president of the Kazinczy Society in Košice. In this capacity, he primarily achieved merit in publishing volumes of fiction and the journal Tátra Kiadó Tátra. He often wrote minority protection studies and also spoke out in favor of the Slovak minority in Hungary. In 1947, the elderly man, who was already 78 years old, was resettled in Hungary, despite the intercession of several of his famous patrons (including the Lutheran bishop Vladimír Čobrda). He lived for a while in Sóskút, and then became a resident of the Retired Teachers' Home in Pesthidegkút. He wrote his autobiography, Memories of a Vanished World (1964), when he was already over 90. ; ; His main works: ; The Youth of Ivan Bánó, 1929; A Short History of the Lutheran College of Prešov 1531–1931, 1933.