Michael Guhr

* Nagyszalók, March 11, 1873 – † Szepesszombat, August 23, 1933 / physician, sportsman, prominent representative of Tatra tourism ; ; He received his medical degree from the University of Budapest. From 1897, he was the chief physician in Tátraszéplak. In 1902, he had a sanatorium built for the treatment of pneumonia, Basedow's disease, asthma, etc. diseases. He was a great advocate and propagandist of climatotherapy. He was the only invited European speaker at the congress of Basedow's disease researchers held in the USA (1931). He was one of the creators of Hungarian skiing, the builder of the first Tatra ski jumps, and the organizer and director of our first international ski competition on February 5, 1911. He founded the Hungarian Ski Club and the Hungarian Ski Association, and was the president of several sports and cultural associations and federations. He was also one of the founders of the tourist magazine Turistaság és Alpinizmus, where he also published medical articles. In 1927, he purchased the plot of land of the burned-down Róza and Kohlbach hotels in Szószék near Tarajka and donated it to the Karpathenverein. The Karpathenverein built a new shelter on the plot, opened it in 1934 and named it the Guhr Shelter (Guhrova chata, Schronisko Guhra, Dr. Guhr Jugendheim und Turistenhaus). In 1946, it was renamed the Bilík Shelter. After his death, his family donated his rich legacy to the Carpathian Museum in Poprad. The legacy; It was exhibited in a separate room (Guhr Memorial Room), which was opened on December 19, 1933. On July 4, 1937, the Karpathenverein placed a plaque in his honor on the Szilágyi Memorial in Tarajka. After World War II, the plaques were removed from the monument. Imre Keller wrote a two-volume novel about Mihály Guhr entitled Tísztán egy ésen éter, which was published in Košice in 1933.