May Henrik

May Henrik

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* Nagytapolcsány, born in 1816 – † Budapest, June 28, 1906 / physician, doctor of philosophy, teacher at the Higher Realist School, writer ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Buda, and obtained a medical degree at the Charles Ferdinand University in Prague. He was subsequently ordained a doctor of philosophy at the University of Pest. In the 1850s and 1860s, he was a teacher at the Higher Realist School in Buda, but also practiced as a doctor. He retired in 1879. His son, Ignác, established an antiquarian bookshop from his library in 1879. Another son, Manó Mai (Pest, May 24, 1855 – Budapest, July 24, 1917), was an imperial and royal court photographer and specialist writer, whose house, built in 1894, is today the center of Hungarian photographers. ; ; His main works: ; The Archduke in the Byzantine Empire, or The Pedagogical Allegory of Teresis, 1855, ; In the Spirit of the Age. Original Poetic Play in Four Acts, 1894.

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12145

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Gömörliget (Gömörnánás)