Gusztav Tomcsanyi

* Ósva, February 13, 1852 – † Máramarossziget, October 3, 1911 / forestry engineer, professional writer ; ; younger brother of Gyula Tomcsányi. He completed his studies at the Košice high school, then at the Mining and Forestry Academy in Selmecbánya between 1871 and 1874. He entered the state service in 1874: he worked in Ungvár, then in Bánya-Beszterce, Budapest, Bustyaháza, and finally in Máramarossziget until his death as the head of the country's largest forestry directorate. He was also active in the field of tourism, and served as the vice-president of the Eastern Carpathian department of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1898 and 1910. His literary works were published in the Forestry Journals, and he mainly dealt with forestry. He was the designer of the air-heated seed-spinner and the oak acorn wintering hut. He was also referred to as the savior of the oak groves. His great merit is that intensive alpine farming began on the favorable mountain pastures and meadows: the formation of appropriate dairy cooperatives, the leasing of alpine pastures by means of marking, the planned, regulated utilization of the forest and other lands of the region. During his term of office, the treasury estate in Máramaros increased, so that planned forest and agricultural management could be established in almost the entire region. ; ; His main works: On the cultivation of forest seedlings, 1889.