Inkey Bela

* Bratislava, December 1, 1847 – † Szombathely, August 31, 1921 / geologist, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1887) ; ; He completed his secondary education at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Kalksburg in 1859–1867. After that, he studied law at the University of Pest for two years, and in 1870 he passed his bar exam in Bratislava. For a short time, he worked as an assistant draftsman in the Ministry of Religion and Public Education, where he dealt with the affairs of the Mining and Forestry Academy in Bánya Selmec. However, he chose earth sciences instead of a legal career, and from 1871 he was a student at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, where he was able to attend lectures by, among others, Bernhard von Cotta, who had previously conducted ore geological research in Hungary and Transylvania. In 1874 he obtained his mining engineering diploma, and in that same year he became a mapping geologist at the Royal Hungarian Geological Institute. At the request of the Hungarian Natural History Society, he explored the mining geology and geological conditions of the Transylvanian Ore Mountains, especially the Nagyág ore deposit, in 1878–1880. At the end of 1880, he conducted on-site investigations in the company of Miksa Hantken (Jablonka) after the Zagreb earthquake. In 1882–1883, he conducted geological mapping work in the Southern Carpathians. In 1885, he studied the geological structure of Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece and Serbia; he studied it as a member of an expedition to the Balkan Peninsula. In 1891, he organized the agrogeological department at the Geological Institute, which he became the head of as the Institute's chief geologist. In 1893–1895, he taught agrogeology at state-organized viticulture and winemaking courses on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture. From 1897, he farmed on his estate in Taródház. In 1906, representing Hungarian geology, he participated and gave a petrological lecture at the 10th International Geological Congress held in Mexico City, followed by a brief field trip in the United States. Thanks to his organizational work, the 1st International Agrogeological Congress was held in Budapest in 1909. He participated in the editing of the Geological Bulletin (1880–1884) and the Geological Bulletin (1880–1885). He mainly dealt with plain geology, primarily the geological survey of the Great Plain. ; ; His main works: ; Geological and mining conditions of Nagyág, 1885; The Transylvanian mountains from the Olt Gorge to the Iron Gate, 1889; Mezőhegyes and its region from an agronomic and geological point of view, 1896; History of soil investigations in Hungary (also in German), 1915.