Paul Magda

* Rozsnyó, June 29, 1770 – † Sárospatak, July 23, 1841 / statistician, geographer, ; teacher, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1834) ; ; His maternal uncle was András Cházár (Jólesz). He completed his studies in Dobsina, Rozsnyó, Késmárk and Bratislava, then from 1792 to 1794 he studied theology at the University of Jena. After returning home, he taught in Igló, Csetnek, and in 1809–1811 in Levoča, Bánya Biszterce, Sopron and Karlóca. During these years, he repeatedly earned the disapproval of the Viennese court. From 1825, he taught natural history, economics, German, Hungarian and Roman literature at the Sárospatak college. From 1830 he was a teacher at the Szarvas Gymnasium. He retired in 1838. He was one of the initiators of statistical country descriptions in Hungarian, and one of the continuers of his work was Elek Fényes. The data and descriptions in his works are based on his own experiences and observations, but his critical and openly critical style (and manner) earned him many enemies. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member on November 8, 1834. Several of his dissertations were published in the Upper Hungarian Minerva. He published in Latin, Hungarian and German. Several of his studies remained in manuscript (My paradoxes, 1831, Essay on the purpose of man, 1836, On the obstacles to the training of man, 1836, On philosophy, 1838). ; ; His main works: ; The latest statistical and geographical description of Hungary and the border guard military region, 1819 (in German: 1832), ; A farmer who thinks and works according to the principles of the philosophy of field economy, 1833.