Charles Keczkes
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* Levoca, 18 November 1798 – † Pécs, 23 November 1856 / hydraulic engineer ; ; He received his diploma in 1822 from the Institutum Geometricum in Pest. From 1823 he was an engineer for the mapping of the Danube, and in 1829 a navigation engineer. Around 1830 he conducted surveys on the Rába and Pinka and prepared regulation plans. In 1837 he was transferred to Bratislava to regulate the Danube. In 1844 he was the chief engineer of the national construction directorate. From that time on he began to deal with the affairs of the Tisza regulation. After the death of Pál Vásárhelyi, he was the chief engineer of the Tisza Valley Company from the beginning of 1847. In 1848, István Széchenyi commissioned him with the revision of the Danube regulation plans. His operations on the Tisza ceased with the outbreak of the War of Independence. In 1853, he was appointed as a public works inspector to the Vienna Ministry of Commerce and entrusted with the management of water affairs in Hungary. In 1855, he investigated the causes of the floods of the Lower Tisza. This year, his own dredging machine was tested in the Bogyiszló cut. His plans and literary works were lost. His study on the Tisza was published by József Képessy in his work A magyar Alföld hydrográphiája (Pest, 1867).