Miklos Lacsny
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* Vistuk, December 7, 1776 – † Bratislava, February 9, 1857 / estate administrator, court judge, founder of a sugar factory ; ; It is assumed that he was a student of the Bratislava Law Academy. In the 1820s–1840s, he was the governor of the extensive estates of the Pálffy princely family. From 1828, he grew sugar beets on his estates in Nagyfödémes and Bátorkesz and in 1830, he had sugar factories built in both villages under the direction of Belgian experts – these were the first sugar factories in Hungary. He modernized the technology of sugar beet cultivation and opened his own sugar shop in Bratislava in 1836. The decline in the price of sugar forced him to close both factories in 1840. His wife, Katalin Folkusfalvy Lacsny (Buchwieser Cathinka, 1789–1828), was an opera singer.