Stephen Grynaeus

* Eperjes, March 21, 1893 – † Budapest, September 28, 1936 / mathematician, college teacher ; ; He began his school studies in his hometown. In 1911, he enrolled at the Budapest University of Science and Technology, where he studied mathematics and physics. Due to the outbreak of World War I, he abandoned his studies, after enlisting as a soldier and becoming a Russian prisoner of war in 1915. He returned home in 1920 and graduated from university in 1921, and in 1922 he obtained a doctorate in mathematics. From 1921, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Geometry at the University of Budapest. In 1925–1926, he studied in Paris and then in Delft with a Rockefeller scholarship. In 1932, he was appointed as a private tutor and became a teacher at the Eötvös College and the Secondary School Teacher Training Institute. As a mathematician, he primarily worked on differential geometry and differential equations, as well as Pfaff functions.