Leopold Stark

* Trenčín, May 4, 1866 – † Budapest, December 17, 1932 / mechanical engineer ; ; &nbsp, ; ; He began his studies in his hometown, then graduated from the Budapest University of Technology in 1887 as a mechanical engineer, but he was among the first to attend special electrical engineering lectures and later dealt with electricity in his career. From 1891 to 1893, he was the manager of the power plant construction sites of the Ganz Electric Co. Ltd. in Brazil (Sao Paulo, Comphania Agua e Luz company). From 1896 to 1910, he was the chief engineer of the factory. As a company manager, he participated in the design, construction and commissioning of numerous foreign and domestic power plants for nearly a decade and a half. In 1911, he was the general manager of the Constantinople Electric Works, from 1911 to 1919, the general manager of the Budapest Metropolitan Electric Works, and from 1920, his technical advisor. He carried out a wide range of literary activities. He was a contributor to several trade journals and the editor of Elektrotechnika. He was a member of the English electrical engineering association, the Society of Electrical Engineers. In 1918, he became the Grand Master of the Galilei Lodge. ; ; His main works: ; Calculation of electrical wires (with József Herzog, 1890, ; High-current electrical engineering (In: History of our technical development), 1927.