Imre Pattantyús-Abraham

* Illava, August 26, 1891 – † Budapest, January 30, 1956 / smelting engineer, university professor ; ; His father, Márton Pattantyús-Ábrahám (Zilah, May 25, 1857 – Trenčín, July 28, 1931), was a doctor at the Illava prison between 1889 and 1923, and his mother, Ilona Pöschl, was the daughter of the distinguished Selmecbánya academic teacher, Ede Pöschl (1820–1898). Their son Imre was the fourth in line (Géza – he later also became a renowned professor, after Márton, Endre and before his sister Erzsébet). He began his secondary school studies at the Trenčín Catholic High School, and then completed them at the Nagyszombat Catholic High School in 1909. Since the family was inclined towards natural sciences and technology, Imre continued the tradition and qualified as a smelter engineer at the Mining and Forestry Academy in Selmecbánya in 1913, and received his iron smelter engineer diploma in 1917. From 1913 to 1918, he was a teacher and workshop manager at the state vocational school in Gölnicbánya, and he also served for three years in the military during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant in 1919. He married in 1917, his wife – like his mother – was the daughter of a professor from Selmecbánya, Sándor Jankó (1866–1923), Jankó Magda, with whom he had four children (Gábor, Edit, Ádám and Tamás). In 1919, he taught general mechanics and drawing at the state higher industrial school in Košice for a short time, but due to the change of empire, he saw it better to move to Hungary. He became a lecturer at the physics and electrical engineering department of the Selmec Mining and Forestry Academy, which had meanwhile settled in Sopron, as an assistant professor to Professor Géza Boleman. In 1924, he became the head of the metallurgical mechanics department as an extraordinary college professor. In 1931, he was elected dean of the Metallurgical Engineering Department. However, in 1934, the Sopron college was merged into the József Nádor University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, and this inevitably led to layoffs in Sopron, which Imre Pattantyús-Ábrahám did not accept and instead voluntarily left the college and found a job in industry. He first became the advisor and then the technical director of the Rimamurányi-Salgótarján Ironworks, and from 1941 he was the managing director of the Hungarian Wagon and Machine Works in Győr. He prevented the Arrow Cross from moving the factory abroad in 1944, which was quickly restored after the war, and after nationalization he was appointed general manager. In 1949, he became a professor at the Faculty of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering in Sopron of the newly established University of Heavy Industry in Miskolc, and in this capacity he taught the subjects of “heat engines and compressors”, “energy management of smelters”, “metallurgical conveying equipment” and “machine elements”. In 1951, he was transferred to Miskolc, where he founded the department of general mechanical engineering. ; He was very popular among his students, and “Uncle Patyi” often appeared in the university’s satirical magazine, Húzótüské, founded in 1954. In 1955, he was diagnosed with cancer, which proved fatal. ; ; His main works: Intermittent operation ; performance of electric motors, 1927, Die Berechnung der Walzarbeit – together with Ernő Cotel (1879–1954)45 –, 1929, ; Heat storage in the service of energy balancing, 1929, Operating conditions of Ruth storage, 1929, Metallurgical conveying equipment, ; 1955, Metallurgical electrical engineering, 1955.