Gabor Strompl

* Nagymihály, December 12, 1885 – † Iászvásár (Romania), August 22, 1945 / geographer, cartographer, cave explorer ; ; He studied geography at the Budapest University of Science and Technology as a student of Lajos Lóczy (Bratislava). He received his doctorate in 1909. From 1918 he was an assistant professor in the geography department at the Elisabeth University in Bratislava. After World War I, he became a professor of mapping and morphology at the Budapest University of Science and Technology. In addition, he taught terrain and map reading at the Honvéd Cartographic Institute. From 1927 he entered active military service and was captured by the Russians as a cartographer-lieutenant colonel in 1944 and died in a prison camp. In addition to his significant geographical and mapping work, his theoretical and practical work in the processing of the landforms of the Hungarian land is outstanding, but his work in the field of cave research was also pioneering. He was the first qualified specialist who, after touring a larger area of the country, described and mapped the caves found there. ; He began the registration of Hungarian caves. In 1910, he processed the caves of Zemplén County, in 1911 the 77 caves of the Abaúj-Gömör karst region, in 1912 the caves of the Vargyas Gorge, and then in 1913 the caves around Bajmóc. He proposed the collection of folk expressions for the creation of professional nomenclature, for which he gave an example by recording what he heard in Transylvania. His teaching work was significant. His writings were published in several popular and professional journals starting in 1906. His book Map Reading, published in 1927, became a textbook for the College of Physical Education. He participated in the development of Hungarian tourist signs. He was a collaborator of several tourist guides and co-editor of the work Earth and Man. He was a founding member of the first scientific speleological organization, the Speleological Committee of the Hungarian Geological Society, and later the independent Hungarian Speleological Society. ; ; His main works: ; Caves and Rock Dwellings of Zemplén County, 1910, ; The Gorge of the Vargyas, 1912, ; Preliminary report on the cave research carried out in the summer of 1911 in the Abaúj-Gömör cave region, 1912, ; The Homoródalmási cave system and its formation, 1913; Bajmóc caves, 1915; Hydrology of the Gömör–Tornai karst, 1923.