Michael Greguss

* Pusztafödémes, July 1, 1793 – † Bratislava, September 27, 1838 / Evangelical teacher, writer, philosopher, aesthete ; ; Father of Ágost Greguss (Eperjes) and Gyula Greguss (Eperjes). He completed his studies at the Evangelical Lyceum in Bratislava, and in 1814–1816 at the universities of Tübingen and Göttingen. From 1817 he was a teacher of philosophy and history at the Prešov College, and from 1833 at the Evangelical College in Bratislava. In Prešov he had a great influence on his students, among them the young Kossuth, who later remembered him with gratitude. He was the first Evangelical teacher to teach the so-called philosophical (including natural science) subjects in Hungarian. He was persecuted by the government for his nationalistic and free-spirited statements. He published his articles primarily in the Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung in Halle, the Iris in Pest, and the Minerva in Upper Hungary. Many of his mathematical, physical, historical, and philosophical treatises (e.g. the Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Political Sciences – the latter in Hungarian) remained in manuscript. He also wrote numerous poems in Latin and Hungarian. ; ; His main works: ; Durch welche Mittel kann die Wirksamkeit des Kanzelredners zweckmässig erhöcht werden, 1821, Compendium aestheticae, usui auditorum suorum edidit, 1826, ; Selected minor works of Mihály Greguss (with the author's portrait and autobiography), 1852.