Emil Kumlik
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* Bratislava, June 5, 1868 – † Budapest, December 31, 1944 / librarian, writer, publicist ; ; He completed his higher education at the Bratislava Law Academy in 1887–1891, and was awarded a doctorate in political science in 1910 in Kolozsvár. In 1887–1894, he was a colleague of the newspapers Pozsonyvidéki Lapok, then Pozsonymegeyi Közlöny, Nyugatmagyarországi Híradó and Westungarische Grenzbote, as well as a regular correspondent for several capital newspapers and an occasional correspondent for some foreign newspapers. Between 1894–1900, he was a correspondent and then an assistant secretary in the press department of the Prime Minister's Office. In 1900–1914 he was the librarian of the city of Bratislava, in 1914–1919 he was the director of the library of the Elizabeth University in Bratislava, and in 1919–1921 he was the librarian of Bratislava again. He retired in 1922. In 1921 he moved from Bratislava to Budapest and became a journalist again. In 1923–1925 he was a colleague of Dunaposta, then Pester Lloyd and the editor-in-chief of the Neues Pester Journal. From 1925 he was an external collaborator of Pester Lloyd and a correspondent of the Bratislava Híradó, and at the same time he was an honorary employee of the MNM Library in 1927–1933. In a large number of his works he dealt with various political, legal and historical issues. He translated several short stories by Árpád Berczik and Ferenc Herczeg into German. ; ; His main works: ; Art Fashions, 1904, ; Thirty-year History of the “Toldy Circle of Bratislava”, 1905, ; Martyrs of the War of Independence in Bratislava, 1905, ; Address List of the Public Library of the Free Royal City of Bratislava I-IV., 1906–1910, ; The Life and Work of Ferenc Flóris Rómer, 1907, ; A Pictorial Guide to Bratislava, 1907, ; Additions to the History of the Bratislava Diets, 1825-1848, 1908, ; Local Government in the Hungarian Roman Catholic Church. The Nature, Historical Basis and Organization of the Autonomy of the Bratislava Roman Catholic Community, 1909, ; Laienautonomie der Pressburger röm. kath. Gemeinde, 1909, ; Frigyes Dohnányi 1843-1909. ; The life and work of a Hungarian stenographer, 1937.