Gacsalk

Gallik (Gálfy) András (or Adam?)

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* Berzéte, 1818 ? – † Košice, June 18, 1885 / doctor, officer in the American Civil War ; ; Due to the early death of his father, a military officer, he had to survive in difficult financial circumstances and therefore became a merchant's apprentice in Dobsiná, later studying at ... Read More

Gustav Adolf Szontagh

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* Csetnek, April 9, 1793 – † Pest, June 7, 1858 / philosopher, aesthete, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; ; He studied at the Miskolc Ref. Lyceum and then at the Mezőberény Evangelical School. He studied philosophy at the University of Pest and law in Késmárk. He was ... Read More

Andras Vandrak

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* Csetnek, January 24, 1807 – † Prešov, September 14, 1884 / pedagogical and philosophical writer, teacher, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He began his studies in his native village, then continued in Košice, Rožňava and completed them in Prešov as ... Read More

Mihaly Gorcsos

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* Debrőd, August 7, 1923 – † Košice, January 21, 1999 / local historian, ethnographer ; ; He graduated from the Košice Commercial High School in 1944, then graduated from a two-year commercial college in Budapest in 1949. He earned a Hungarian teaching diploma from the correspond... Read More

Oscar Paulinyi

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* Garamszeg, December 28, 1899 – † Budapest, May 1, 1982 / historian, archivist ; ; As a member of the Eötvös College, he graduated from the Budapest University of Science and Technology with a degree in history and Latin, and received his doctorate in Hungarian cultural history ... Read More

Joseph Barsi

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* Janó-Lehota, 23 February 1810 – †  Budapest, 18 February 1893 / publicist, statistician, philosophical writer, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1870) ; ; His father, József Neumann, was a schoolmaster of Silesian origin. He started secondary school at ... Read More

Andras Khazar

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* Jólész, June 15, 1745 – † Rozsnyó, January 28, 1816 / lawyer, initiator of the foundation of the Vác deaf-mute institute, the localizer of potatoes in Gömör ; ; He came from an impoverished Lutheran noble family. He was raised in his native village until the age of eight. He be... Read More

Adam Brezanoczy

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* Jolsva, November 4, 1751 – † Pest, March 2, 1832 / Jesuit monk, lawyer, university professor ; ; Between 1768 and 1773 he was a Jesuit student in Košice, after the dissolution of the order he remained in a secular career: he became a lawyer and was ordained a jurist in November... Read More

Andras Thaisz

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* Jolsva, 15 November 1789 – † Pest, 9 July 1840 / lawyer, newspaper editor, translator ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Késmárk, then studied law and became a lawyer in Pest. Between 1819 and 1827 he edited the monthly journal Tudományos Gyűjtemény, which was lau... Read More

Greiner Lajos (Ludwig)

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* Lichtentanne, 10 May 1796 – † Jolsva, 28 October 1882 / forester, Tatra explorer; ; Born near Zwickau in Germany, he studied at the Saafeld Gymnasium and then at the Dreisigacker Higher Forestry Institute. From 1816 to 1819 he was a forester at the Coburg estate in Baumgarten, ... Read More