Charles Kolbai

* Bratislava, August 16, 1901 – † Budapest, November 25, 1972 / agronomist, university professor, doctor of agricultural science (1952) ; ; He received his diploma from the Academy of Economics in Magyaróvár (1920). He became an intern there, then from 1924 an assistant professor, from 1927 an assistant professor. From 1931 he was a professor of crop production at the Academy of Economics in Keszthely. After a short period of work in Budapest, he was a professor at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Gödöllő from 1949, and its rector from 1957 to 1960. He retired in 1968. His research areas: issues of pasture and meadow management, cover crop organic fertilizer management, alfalfa breeding and seed production, problems of grassland crop rotation, twin-row corn production. His literary work is also significant, with several hundred studies and articles published. He wrote university notes on plant production. His work was recognized with the Kossuth Prize (1957). A street in Mosonmagyaróvár was named after him and he is buried here. ; ; His main works: ; Meeting the fodder needs of the Great Plain, 1926, ; Planting new grasslands by seeding, 1940, ; Proper tillage, 1941, ; Twin-row corn production in Gödöllő, 1957, ; The role of corn in increasing the inland distribution of our crop production, 1959, ; Theoretical lessons from the grass crop rotation system in Hungary, 1962.