Tihamer Lacza

* Bátorkeszi, November 29, 1948 – / chemist, historian of science and culture, literary critic, editor ; ; He lived in Bátorkeszi until he was four years old. He completed his primary school education in Köbölkút (1964), and graduated from the Érsekújvár Gymnasium in 1967. He obtained a diploma in scientific chemistry from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Charles University in Prague in 1972. (In 1969–1970 he was the president of the Ady Endre Student Circle in Prague.) In 1972–1975 he worked at the Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, where he worked on the electron spin resonance spectroscopy of polymers. From 1975 to 1995, he was the editor of the cultural and public education weekly Hét in Bratislava, and from December 1989 to May 1995, he was the editor-in-chief. From 1995 to 2013, he was the editor-reporter of the Hungarian broadcast of the Slovak Radio (Pátria Radio). From 1997 to 1998, he was a biology teacher at the Hungarian Gymnasium in Bratislava, from 2001 to 2005, he was a teacher at the Komárom branch of the Budapest University of Technology, from 2003 to 2009, he was the editor of the cultural section of the weekly Szabad Újság, and from 2004 to 2008, he was a teacher at the Selye János University in Komárom. His journalistic and editorial activities are primarily related to literature, press history, music and fine arts, the history of culture and science, and scientific dissemination. In the 1970s, he wrote short stories, and in the 1980s and 1990s, he also wrote educational audio plays. He translated about 45 textbooks and several specialist books from Czech and Slovak into Hungarian. In 1989–1993, he was a member of the Presidium of the Csemadok OT, in 1990, he was one of the founders and until 1996, he was the vice-president of the Slovak Hungarian Scientific Society. Since 1990, he has been a member of the Slovak Hungarian Writers' Society, between 2008–2013, he was the president of the Scientific and Dissemination Section, and since 1990, he has been a member of the Slovak Translators' Society. ; Currently lives in Nyárasdon. ; ; Awards: ; Imre Madách Award (1985), ; Posonium Literary Award Special Prize (2006), ; Hevesi Endre Award (2007), ; Palást Municipality Mayor's Award (2010), ; Hungarian Republic Golden Cross of Merit (2011), ; Szímő Municipality Jedlik Ányos Award (2012). ; ; Main works: ; Ember a szóban (literary criticism), 1985, ; Ki kicsoda Kassatól–Prágaíg? (co-author), 1993, ; A magyar tudománya százdadai I–II. (studies on the history of science with László Kiss and Ernő Ozogány), 1994, 1996, ; The Hungarian press in Slovakia after 1945 (In: History of Hungarian culture in (Czech) Slovakia; 1918–1998, II. Education, public culture, press, p. 378–426), 1998, ; Cathedral built of thoughts (studies in the history of science with László Kiss and Ernő Ozogány), 2001, ; Our twentieth century (studies in the history of science, co-author), 2001, ; Travelers, explorers, conquerors, adventurers (studies in the history of geography), 2003, ; Memory of antiquity. From rock drawings to the alphabet (monography on the history of writing), 2004, ; Lexicon of Hungarian literature in Czech/Slovakia 1918–2004 (co-author) 2004, ; A Walk in a Garden (literary and cultural history studies), 2005, ; Magic Table. The Cultural History of Chemical Elements (monograph on the History of Chemistry), 2006, ; Textbook Heroes I. (scientific history studies), 2008, ; On the Sidelines, or Notes of an Islander (literary and cultural history studies, journalistic articles), 2009, ; Heroes (scientific history studies, co-author), 2009, ; The Creator of Stress Theory. Scientific Conference on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of János Selye (editor and co-author), 2009, ; In the Service of Science. Portrait Gallery of Representatives of Hungarian Scientific Life and Popular Literature in Slovakia (biographies, 2010), ; Island on the Mainland. The History of the Ady Endre Student Circle in Prague, 2012; Zsinórpádlás (with László Kiss and Ernő Ozogány), 2013.