Samuel Weber

* Poprad, March 26, 1835 – † Szepesbéla, May 18, 1908 / Lutheran pastor, local historian, ; Tatra researcher ; ; His father was the mayor of Poprad, his younger brother Rudolf Weber was an ethnographic and historical writer. He completed his secondary schooling at the Keszmárk Lyceum. He studied theology in Prešov and Jena. In the meantime, he was a tutor for Count Albin Csáky for two years, and then Szepesbéla chose him as his pastor. He participated in the founding of the Hungarian Carpathian Society, was a member of the committee from 1873, and was a member of the central committee between 1895 and 1903, and was the head of the botanical department of the Museum. ; He was an excellent expert on the High Tatras, and tried to popularize the mountains both orally and in writing. The Weber Peak (2524 m) in the Tatra Mountains, at the Green Lake, was named after him. He had decisive merits in the establishment of the Barlangliget142 resort. One of the most prominent historical researchers of the Spiš region. A thorough explorer of the past of the county, the towns and the Tatra Mountains. An outstanding commentator on the onomastics, exploration history, mining and mythological world of the Tatra Mountains, a registrar and processor of cultural history data. He published a lot, several of his papers appeared in newspapers and in the yearbooks of the MKE, and wrote about a thousand short articles. In his 24-volume work entitled The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Writing and in Pictures, he received the Imperial Coronation Order for his description of the Spiš Region and Upper Hungary. In his articles and papers, he dealt with the history of mining in the Tatra Mountains, the past of some settlements, the limestone cave in Barlangliget, and commemorated the 19th century. operated in no. ; ; His main works: ; Bergbau in the Tatras, 1879, ; Zipser Geschichts- und Zeitbilder, 1880, ; Beschreibung der Szepes-Bélaer Trofstein-Höhle sammt einige Ausflügen in der östlichen Tatra und im Pieninen-Gebiete, 1883, ; Geschichte der Stadt Béla, 1892, Geschichte der Stadt Leibitz, 1896, ; Ehrenhalle verdienstvoller Zipser des XIX. ; Jahrhunderts, 1901.