Lajos Kallos

* Borzova, 15 May 1819 – † Debrecen, 2 September 1881 / jurist, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He completed his studies at the Reformed College in Sárospatak. In 1842, he spent his internship at the Count Károlyi estate prosecutor's office, and in 1843 he took the bar exam. From 1846 onwards, he regularly published legal studies and specialist books in Hungarian. In 1851–1853, he gave lectures on the principles of Hungarian law at the law department of the Sárospatak College. In 1853, he became a jurist at the Reformed College in Debrecen, and in the same year, the law department was qualified as a public law academy by the decree of the Minister of Culture. He worked there until his death. It is characteristic of his popularity that his students organized a memorial ceremony upon his death. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member in 1863, and his thesis was on respect for the law. Several of his works remained in manuscript (Universal European Legal History, Interest Question). ; ; His main works: ; Principles of Hungarian Civil Law, 1846, ; Some Leaves from the Laws of Life, 1848 (the second revised edition was published in 1862 under the title Judgments of the Hungarian Supreme Court), ; Principles of Austrian Civil Law, 1852, Principles of Hungarian Civil Law, 1853.