George Kerekes

* Nyíregyháza, April 3, 1870 – † Košice, February 22, 1947 / historian, economic historian ; ; After graduating from the Eger teacher training school, he began teaching at the Homonna commercial school, later becoming the school's director. In the 1910s, he moved to Košice, where he first taught at the commercial school and then, from 1919, at the law academy. Between 1920 and 1930, he edited the public interest paper of the Hungarian craftsmen and merchants in the Košice area, Közérdek. He also wrote textbooks; his work Történelem közögasdásági alapon, published in 1896, was the first Hungarian secondary school textbook written on the basis of economic history. ; ; His main works: ; A kereskedelmi története, 1896, ; Economic aspects of old Hungarian laws from 1000 to 1526, 1901, ; Illustrated history of trade, with special reference to Hungary, 1903, ; Development of Hungarian trade, 1907, ; Economic conditions of the city of Košice in the 17th century, 1912, ; Three and a half centuries from the life of Košice merchants 1687–1913, 1913, ; Difficulties in the development of the bourgeois class in the 17th century, 1914, ; Our bourgeois society in the 17th century, 1940, ; Industry and trade of the Uplands in the past 50 years, 1941, ; Prince Gábor Bethlen in Košice, 1943.