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Albert Gárdonyi (Grün)

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* Prešov, December 24, 1874 – / Budapest, October 23, 1946 / historian, chief archivist ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Miskolc, where his father was a railway official. After graduating, he prepared to become a priest, so he studied theology at the University of... Read More

George Wernher

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* Paczków, around 1497 – † Prešov, 1567 / humanist, poet, teacher ; ; He began his studies in Boroszló, then continued at the University of Kraków, where he obtained a baccalaureate degree in 1519. He then taught in Košice and Prešov. From 1527 he participated in the Hungarian wa... Read More

John Bayer

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* Prešov, 1630 – † Székesfehérvár (?), 1674 / Lutheran theologian, college professor, philosopher ; ; As a child of poor parents, he was educated by the Prešov city council. In 1653, he obtained a master's degree and then an extraordinary teacher's degree in Wittenberg. For three... Read More

John Hambacher

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* Prešov, 1682 – † Prešov, 1759 / doctor of medicine, chief county physician ; ; He completed his secondary education in his hometown. He studied medicine in Frankfurt-Oder, Berlin and from July 16, 1706 in Wittenberg, where he obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1710. He pract... Read More

Raymann (Reiman) János Ádám

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* Prešov, 1690 – † Prešov, 23 April 1770 / physician, pharmacist ; ; After completing his primary and secondary education, he obtained his doctorate in medicine in Leiden in 1712. Upon his return home, he was the chief physician of Prešov and Sáros counties. In addition to medica... Read More

Samuel Krieger

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* Prešov, around 1730 – ? † around 1785–1790 / engineer, cartographer ; ; He studied at the Vienna Academy of Military Engineering from 1766–1768. He was first a county engineer, then an engineer of the Governor's Council, later of the Shipping Directorate, and finally of the Nat... Read More

István Schönwiesner

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* Prešov, 15 December 1738 – † Nagyvárad, 26 September 1818 / archaeologist, university professor, canon of Nagyvárad ; ; He joined the Jesuit order in 1756, then completed his theology in Nagyszombat and became prefect of the Teresianum in Vienna. When the Jesuit order was disso... Read More

Antal Szirmay

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* Prešov, 20 January 1747 – † Szinyér, 19 September 1812 / local historian, county official ; ; He completed his primary school education in Sátoraljaújhely, later studied in Prešov and in the Košice convict school. In 1764 he entered the civil service, in 1777 he became the chie... Read More

Gertinger Samuel John

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* Prešov, 13 August 1754 – † Prešov, 22 November 1813 / pharmacist, pioneer of sugar production in Hungary ; ; After completing his elementary school studies, he worked in a pharmacy in Késmárk until 1776, then studied pharmacy at the University of Buda and received a pharmacist'... Read More

Ferenc Pulszky

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* Prešov, September 17, 1814 – † Budapest, September 9, 1897 / politician, archaeologist, art collector, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; ; He began his school studies in Miskolc, then in Prešov and obtained a degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Pest. ... Read More