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* Bratislava, January 17, 1852 – † Budapest, May 23, 1927 / geographical and economic writer, court councilor ; ; His father, Károly Handtel, was a pharmacist. The family moved to Kecskemét and then to Budapest in the 1850s. He began his school studies in these cities, then obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Budapest in 1876, and a geography teacher's certificate in 1878. In 1878, he became an official of the first Hungarian insurance company, and from 1893 he was the head of its mathematics department. He made a study trip to Western Europe, the Balkans and Asia Minor. From 1897 he was vice-president of the Geographical Society, and from 1916 its honorary president. His articles also served to support the expansionist efforts in the Balkans. ; ; His main works: ; Description of the Charles V-Rijeka railway line from a landscape perspective, 1878, ; Hungarian port, Hungarian shipping, 1878, ; The sea, 1879, ; Hungarian shipping, 1879, ; Rijeka, 1881, ; The Suez Canal with special regard to contemporary colonial policy and Rijeka, 1887, ; Flood insurance, 1888, ; The re-attachment of Dalmatia to the Hungarian Empire, 1889, ; Hungarian Geographical Library. ; Bibliotheca Geographica Hungarica (A bibliography of works published in any language about Hungary, and by Hungarian authors on any geographical subject, and in any language, with an introduction), 1893, ; The present and future of Budapest from an administrative point of view, 1894, ; Dalmatia, 1906, ; Trialism from a geographical point of view, 1909, ; Hungary and the Balkans, 1913.