István Kovacs Gömöri

* 1924. Sept. 12. Sajógömör, † 2001. Sajógömör / poet, journalist, teacher, writer, local historian ; ; 1940/41: Graduated from a middle school in Tornalján. 1941/44: Studied at the commercial high school in Rozsnyón. 1945: Graduated from the commercial high school in Miskolc. 1954/57: Obtained a teaching certificate in history and geography at the Pedagogical College in Bratislava. 1946/53: Accountant at the Tornalja brick factory. 1953/84: Taught at the Sajógömör elementary school. 1976/77: Sent to Tornalján as punishment for writing a religious article. ; From 1949, founding member of the Csemadok, president of its basic organization, cultural manager, and general manager. He taught and directed about 300 full-length shows and plays. From 1954, he was the head of the Sajógömör cultural center, a member of the local council. 1945/64: head of the village chronicle. ; 1950/70: president of the sports organization, coach of the football team, 1970/80: supervised the construction of the cultural center and the sports field as part of the village beautification campaign. He had a tomb erected for the Hungarian Red Soldiers of the 19th century, a memorial plaque placed on the building of the former civil school, an "open-air museum" established from the folk headstones of the cemetery, and in the fall of 1990, he had a memorial plaque erected for the heroic dead of World War I, the traditions of King Matthias, his nurse, and the statue of Sajógömör. From 1970, approx. He gave 70 lectures on local history, literature and history, was a member of the district's history and geography teachers' committee, the leader of the village beekeepers, and the commander of the fire department. In the 1990s, he was the editor of Gömöri Hírlap, later Gömöri Hírlap Plusz. He also wrote plays. Until 1976, he wrote under the names István Kovács and G. István Kovács. ; He won prizes in several literary competitions. Since his student days, he has written poems, short stories, historical, literary, and pedagogical articles, and occasional scenes. The poem "My Mother" was the first poem published in Hungarian in Czechoslovakia after World War I (Új Szó, February 12, 1949). ; He was an excellent chess player, and since 2000 the Gömöri Kovács István Memorial Tournament has been held annually in Sajógömör, which has already grown into an international chess tournament. ; ; Works: ; 1. On the path of life. Occasional poems, speeches for life anniversaries, Rimaszombat, 1969. ; 2. Inviting. Children's poems. Bratislava, 1976. ; 3. The dream of the partisan. Poems for schoolchildren. Ibid., 1974. ; 4. The history of the Sajógömör Lutheran bourgeois school Rozsnyó, 1984. ; 5. Obituaries. Rimaszombat, 1985. ; 6. We remember King Matthias. Ibid., 1989.