Vilmos Sóltz, Scholcz

* Svedlér, December 8, 1833 – † Budapest, October 12, 1901 / smelting engineer, academic teacher ; ; He attended high school in Prešov and Košice. He enrolled in the Mining and Forestry Engineering Academy in Selmecbánya in 1854, which he graduated in 1858, and then entered the treasury service. From 1861 he worked in Máramaros County, designing a steam mill for the salt mines in Aknaszlatina. In 1864–1867 he was a smelting master in Kabolapolyána, in 1867–1869 he was an apprentice in Fejérpatak, and in 1869 he was a supervisor at the Turjaremete ironworks. In 1872 he was the manager of the Póniki ironworks, and in 1873 he was the manager of the Tiszolc ironworks. From 1881 he was an assistant professor at the Ferrous Metallurgy Department of the Selmecbánya Academy, and from 1882 he was the head of the department. He interrupted his teaching activity for a study trip to Western Europe, and later reported on his visit to the iron and steel plants of the Saar and Ruhr regions in a series of articles in the Mining and Metallurgical Journal. Between 1892 and 1896 he was the director of the academy and in this capacity did a lot for the modernization and reorganization of education. Several inventions are associated with his name (continuously operating water gas generating device, Sóltz’s steel pestle, Sóltz’s dosing and gas trapping device for blast furnaces). In 1892 he was the founder of the National Hungarian Mining and Metallurgical Association (OMBKE), of which he was the executive vice-president. In 1894, he also founded the Hungarian Association of Materials Testers, of which he also became the first vice-president. Shortly before his death, he retired. He was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown, Class III, and received the title of Chief Advisor to the Hungarian Royal Mine. In his honor, the National Hungarian Mining and Metallurgical Association established the Sóltz Vilmos Memorial Medal in 1967. ; ; His main works: ; The current state of the Thomas and Gilchrist process and its influence on the iron industry (Mining and Metallurgical Papers), 1882, ; Description and theory of the Farbaky and Sóltz continuous water gas generating device (ibid.), 1885, ; Casting of rods and ingots for wire production according to the Kurzwernhardt process (ibid.) 1887, ; History of iron production (ibid.), 1895, ; The Sóltz dispenser, 1896, ; Crucible steel production and the processing of crucible steel into commercial products, 1897.