Aurel Liffa

* Korpona, June 10, 1872 – † Budapest, October 23, 1956 / geologist and mineralogist, private university teacher ; ; He graduated from the Evangelical Lyceum in Selmecbánya in 1891. He then obtained a natural history and chemistry teacher's diploma from the University of Budapest in 1895. He was taught by the most famous Hungarian scientists of the time (Károly Than, Béla Lengyel, Vince Wartha, Miksa Hantken, József Szabó, Loránd Eötvös). In 1895–1897 he was an intern at the Mineralogy of the Hungarian National Museum, and from 1897 he was a lecturer at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology of the University of Budapest. In 1900, as a geologist at the Hungarian State Geological Institute, he conducted mineralogy and petrological research in various regions of the country. He spent the first two years of the World War on the front, and a diary of his was later published by the Budapest Püski Publishing House (From Pécs to Isonzóig. Diary, September 1, 1914–May 22, 1916, 2012). From the 1920s, he was involved in researching the occurrence of industrially usable minerals and rocks (kaolin, perlite, etc.) in Hungary. He published his mineralogy, crystallography, and petrology papers primarily in Hungarian and German journals, as well as in the yearbook of the Geological Institute.