Alfred Grosz

* Késmárk, August 25, 1885 – † Késmárk, March 1, 1973 / teacher, mountaineer, Tatra explorer ; ; His father, Ernő Grósz (1833–1900), was the director of the Késmárk high school. His son graduated from high school there in 1903, then became a student at the Košice Agricultural Academy and the Prešov Law Academy, while farming in their Tokaj vineyard. In order to become a high school teacher, he obtained a physical education teacher qualification in Budapest in 1911. He was a teacher at the Jászberény high school until World War I. He fought through the war, then continued teaching in Jászberény, but in 1919 he moved back to his hometown, where he worked as an accountant for 2 years at the local embroidery factory. Between 1922 and 1944 he worked as a physical education teacher at the German Lyceum in Keszthely. From 1945 to 1947 he taught at the Slovak Gymnasium in Igló and from 1947 to 1949 at the Keszthely, before retiring. He was one of the most prominent Tatra mountaineers, who was the first to climb many peaks, but he also often accompanied his students and climbers from further afield on trips. With teacher Lajos Rokfalusy (Lőcse, October 24, 1887 – Salgótarján, April 27, 1974), he formed the famous Spiš Trio, which made many joint rock climbs. He regularly held mountain rescue trainings and lectures, and also captured the beauties of the Tatra Mountains in numerous photographs, and published articles on the history of Tatra tourism in the Hungarian and German magazines Turistaság és Alpinizmus, Turisták Lapja. His writings were also published in the yearbooks of the Hungarian Carpathian Association, and he also wrote several books on commission, some of which remained in manuscript (e.g.: Data on the historical development of cross-country skiing in Slovakia, 1955, The story of the Keszmárk fire brigade, The story of the medical association in Cipszer – with László Tóth). In Stuttgart, The High Tatras was published in 1961. His work The History of the Hungarian Carpathian Association, The Tales of the High Tatras was published in Munich in 1971.