Emil Korpas

* Ürmény, September 1, 1910 – † Budapest, November 2, 1980 / geographer, university professor ; ; He completed his studies at the Budapest University of Economics and the Budapest University of Science, obtained a commercial secondary school teacher's diploma in 1933, and a doctorate in 1934. In 1934–1935, he was a scholarship holder at the Collegium Hungaricum in Vienna. Then he was an unemployed graduate and home tutor. He was hired as a researcher at the Agricultural Science Center, later at the Soil and Agricultural Chemistry Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he worked on soil mapping. He examined an area of 1,200 km2 and prepared soil maps of these areas along with laboratory tests and explanations. Between 1942 and 1954, he was an assistant professor, college professor, and then head of department at the Academy of Commerce, later at the College of Commerce. From 1952 he was an invited lecturer at the Department of Geography of the University of Szeged, then an associate professor in 1954, and between 1957 and 1963 he was the head of the department and the editor of Acta Geographica. From 1963 he was an associate professor at the Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest, then a professor of the University of Budapest. He was a member of the Main Committee of Geography of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for two periods. He wrote university and college notes, and his high school textbook was published in ten editions. He was a member of the Hungarian Geographical Society for half a century, a member of the board for 25 years, and an honorary member from 1978. ; ; His main works: ; The morphology of the Gerecse Mountains (Geographical Bulletins), 1933), ; The Csepel Island (Water Resources Bulletins), 1934, ; Soil geography sketch of the Szeged area (Geographical Bulletins), 1955, ; Methodology of soil geography research (ibid.), 1955, ; Geography of soil erosion in the Mezőföld (In: The natural geography of the Mezőföld), 1959, ; Southeast Asia (with László Bögös and Károly Matolcsy), 1965, ; The economic development of the southern lowlands (Alföld) (Acta Geographica), 1968, Economic geography of Hungary (chapters 1-2, and the economic regions of the SE Great Plain and the Danube-Tisza), 1969.