John Lipszky

* Vágszállás/Szedlicsna, April 10, 1766 – † Vágszállás, May 2, 1826 / cartographer, military officer ; ; He completed his secondary education between 1776 and 1782 at the Losonc ref. school, the Piarists in Trenčín and the Evangelical Gymnasium in Bratislava. He entered the military career at a young age, became a cavalry captain, became a colonel in 1808, and in 1809 was Palatine Joseph's aide-de-camp during the war against Napoleon. From 1813 he farmed his family estates. By order of the Council of Governors, in 1798, he surveyed the borders of Hungary and part of its interior (about 500 settlements) with the astronomer Imre Dániel Bogdanich – who made geographical location determinations for his work. His published map of Hungary and Transylvania is the first reliable map of the country based on a survey, and the index published alongside it is the first complete list of place names. He carried out his work in Pest, with the support of Count Szigbert Vécsey, for years exempted from actual military service. In 1802, he also drew a four-page city map of Pest and Buda at a scale of 1:7200, which was finally published in print in 1810. He did not establish a family, and after his death his lateral heirs fought over the estate for about 30 years, which eventually dissipated into almost nothing. ; ; His main works: ; Geographische Längen- und Breitenbestimmungen einiger Oerter in Ungern (In: Zeitschrift von u. für Ungern, II.), 1802, ; Mappa generalis regni Hungariae…193, 1806, ; Repertorium locorum objectorumque in XII tabulis mappae regnorum Hungariae, Slavoniae, ; Croatiae et Confiniorum Militarium, Magni item Principatus Transylvaniae occurrentium, 1808, ; Tabella generalis regni Hungariae..., 1810, ; Plan der beyden königlichen freyen Haupstädte Ungarns Ofen und Pesth, 1810.