Arpad Hensch

* Késmárk, October 26, 1847 – † Budapest, July 17, 1913 / vocational school director, economic writer ; ; He graduated from high school in his hometown and then studied law at the University of Pest. However, economic issues interested him more, so he transferred to the Imperial and Royal Higher Institute of Economics in Magyaróvár, where he obtained a diploma in 1869. In the following years, he worked as an apprentice in various manors. In 1872–1873, he went on a study trip to Belgium, France, and England with a state scholarship, and then attended economic lectures in Württemberg and Halle. After his return home, he was a manor administrator, and then in 1877–1880 he was a teacher at the Institute of Economics in Košice and in 1880–1890 at the Institute of Economics in Keszthely. From 1890 until his retirement in 1909, he was a teacher and then director of the Royal Hungarian Academy of Economics in Magyaróvár, which had been elevated to academic rank in the meantime. His field of expertise was primarily agricultural economics, and he was concerned with crop production and agricultural farm organization. He was also a contributor to The Pallas Nagylexikon. ; ; His main works: ; Theory and practice of rational soil cultivation, 1885, ; Animal husbandry and management, 1895.