Gabor Svaiczer (Switzerland)

* Košice, 11 June 1784 – † Nagybánya, 4 August 1845 / mining engineer ; ; He continued his studies at the Selmecbánya Academy from 1804, then at foreign mining and smelting companies. He started his operations in Szomolnok and, based on his research, put the abandoned precious metal mines of Aranyida back into operation. In the processing of ores, he introduced the then little-known solution and sintering process combined with chlorination roasting developed by Ignác Born (1742–1791). He designed the equipment of the ore processing plant himself and made it at home. During his years in Aranyida, he discovered about 300 thousand tons of ore resources. Based on his successful operation, he was entrusted with the management of the state mines, smelters and mint in the area of Nagybánya, which had reached a critical situation. After re-establishing mining here, he was entrusted with the management of the Chamber Countship of Selmec in 1834. With new explorations, improvements to the smelter operations, and several technical innovations, he reorganized his district and made it profitable again. In addition to his versatile work, he was the director of the Selmec Academy between 1834 and 1844. During the ten years of his academic administration, he educated 118 mining, smelter, and forestry engineering students in the increasingly Hungarian spirit of the Reform Era, among whom Antal Péch, Vilmos Zsigmondy, József Szlávi, and many others participated in the War of Independence of 1848/49 and in the re-establishment of the country's industry after 1867. He probably received the silver ornamental mining axe from the king for the excavation of the Ferdinand altar in Körmöcbánya (1839), which is kept in the Mining Museum in Sopron.