Samuel Revai, Rosenberg

* Sebeskellemes, April 13, 1833 – † Budapest, November 13, 1908. bookseller, publisher, founder of the Révai Brothers Literary Institute Rt. ; ; After his elementary school studies, he worked as an apprentice in a bookbinding workshop from 1846. He continued his professional training in Pest, Nagyszombat and Vienna. During this time, he acquired a wide range of knowledge and experience and mastered several foreign languages self-taught. In 1856, he settled in Prešov as a bookbinder. In 1859, he bought the largest local bookstore, which was founded by József Benczúr in 1834. After that, he married and took his orphaned younger brother, Leó Révai, into his home, and he also financed his studies abroad. In 1869 he moved his bookshop to Pest, expanded it with a book publishing department in 1880, and then, together with his younger brother Leo, transformed the entire company into a joint-stock company under the name Révai Brothers Literary Institute in 1895. The company was soon taken over by his sons: János Mór Révai and Ödön Révai, who brought the company national fame. He is credited with establishing the Hungarian professional bookshop and founding the National Association of Hungarian Booksellers. One of the company's largest undertakings was the publication of 22 volumes of Révai's Great Encyclopedia. ; ; His main works: ; On National Literary Work and Hungarian Bookselling, 1887, ; The Conditions of Social Welfare, 1901.