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Gyula Ethey

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* Dömös, 18 November 1878 – † Csejte, 3 October 1957 / local historian ; ; Originally his surname was Kraščenič, which he changed in 1917 with permission from the Minister of the Interior, after he was able to prove his direct descent from János Ethey-Kraščenič (Krascsenits) of T... Read More

Joseph Hlatky

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* Körmöcbánya, December 19, 1849 – † ? after 1900 / local historian, secondary school teacher ; ; He obtained his teaching certificate in history, Hungarian and Latin in Budapest, and from 1873 he worked as a teacher at the secondary school in Körmöcbánya. ; ; His main works: ; T... Read More

Imre Peres

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* Bestzer, January 2, 1953 – / Reformed theologian, historian of religion, university professor. ; ; Graduated from Bratislava in 1973. He received a diploma from the Comenius Faculty of Theology of Charles University in Prague (1978). ; Assistant pastor in 1978–1984, Padány and ... Read More

Golden (Albert) Laszlo

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* Betlér, September 19, 1909 – † Rozsnyó, October 13, 1967 / linguist, teacher, ethnographic collector ; ; He graduated from the Rozsnyó Realgymnázium (1927), and obtained a diploma from the Komenský University in Bratislava (1932). From 1935 he headed the Institute of Dialectolo... Read More

Joseph Ernyey

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* Upper Vestny, April 24, 1869 – † Budapest, October 1, 1945 / ethnographer, university professor, pharmaceutical writer, director general of the Museum of Natural History ; ; According to other sources, he was born in a forester's hut near Bélaudvarnok (Slovak name: Dvorníky nad... Read More

John Zachariah

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* Gyöngyös, October 13, 1719 – † Komárom, September 14, 1772 / Jesuit missionary ; ; He studied in his hometown and in Trenčín, and entered the Jesuit order in Nagyszombat in October 1739. He taught between 1745 and 1748, and left for Spain in early 1749. He spent a year and a ha... Read More

John Wagner

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* Komárom, 18 July 1811 – † Budapest, 2 January 1889 / physician, internist, university professor ; ; He obtained his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1835. In the same year, he became a practicing physician in Pest and served as secretary of the Medical Associatio... Read More

Miklos Herczegh

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* Komárom, May 3, 1919 – † Budapest, October 19, 1976 / physician, orthopedic surgeon ; ; He obtained his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine of the Budapest University of Science and Technology in 1943. He served as a military doctor in the last years of World War II. Be... Read More

Janos N. Belhazy

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* Körmöcbánya, April 19, 1823 – † Budapest, April 20, 1901 / numismatist ; ; He studied at the Mining and Forestry Academy in Selmecbánya, graduating in 1844. In 1871 he became president of the Kolozsvár Mining Directorate, later appointed as an advisor to the Ministry of Finance... Read More

Alexander Kommenovich

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* Körmöcbánya, October 13, 1813 – † Pest, April 22, 1869 / hydraulic engineer, university professor ; ; He completed his studies at the Institutum Geometricum engineering training institute in Pest in 1841, but he was an apprentice at the Tisza Survey from 1837. He was a recogniz... Read More