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Zoltán Sztehlo

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* Eperjes, January 15, 1889 – † Szeged, October 6, 1975 / lawyer, university professor ; ; He began his school studies in Eperjes at the Evangelical College, then studied law at the Eperjes Law Academy (1906–1908) and at the University of Budapest. Between 1920 and 1930 he taught... Read More

Stephen Grynaeus

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* Eperjes, March 21, 1893 – † Budapest, September 28, 1936 / mathematician, college teacher ; ; He began his school studies in his hometown. In 1911, he enrolled at the Budapest University of Science and Technology, where he studied mathematics and physics. Due to the outbreak of... Read More

Bela Hamvas

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* Prešov, March 23, 1897 – † Budapest, November 7, 1968 / writer, philosopher, aesthete, librarian ; ; He came to Bratislava at the age of one, after his father, an evangelical pastor, gave up his priesthood and took a job as a Hungarian-German teacher at the Bratislava Lutheran ... Read More

Miklos Jaky (Janicsek)

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* Prešov, 17 February 1903 – † Budapest, 3 July 1987 / chemical engineer, university professor ; ; He began his school studies in his hometown, and obtained his chemical engineering degree at the Technical University of Budapest in 1927. Initially, he dealt with the active ingred... Read More

Szilard Papp

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* Eperjes, March 4, 1905 – † Budapest, March 31, 1973 / chemical engineer ; ; He completed his chemical engineering studies at the Budapest University of Technology, where he obtained a diploma in 1928. He began his career at the Chemical Laboratory of the State Railways. In 1930... Read More

Stephen Bayer

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* Eperjes, May 22, 1909 – † Budapest, April 27, 1994 / secondary school teacher of mathematics and physics, textbook author, Kossuth Prize winner (1958) ; ; His father was a descendant of a farming family from Sáros County (Nádfő), who completed his studies with church support an... Read More

István Borsody

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* Prešov, September 16, 1911 – † Boston, October 17, 2000 / journalist, historian ; ; In 1934 he earned a doctorate in law and politics from the Czech Charles University in Prague. In the following years he completed his studies at Western universities. After a short legal practi... Read More

Laszlo Zeman

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* Prešov, 7 November 1928 – / linguist, Hungarianologist; ; He graduated from his hometown in 1948, obtained a teaching certificate in biology-philosophy-natural history at the Comenius University in Bratislava in 1953, and then graduated from the Hungarian department at the Peda... Read More

Peter Konya

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* Prešov, August 20, 1966 / historian, university professor ; ; He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown (in 1985), and obtained a history and Russian language teaching diploma from the Šafárik University of Prešov (in 1990). From 1991 he was an assistant ... Read More

John Bokay

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* Igló, 18 May 1822 – † Budapest, 20 October 1884 / physician, surgeon, ophthalmologist, pediatrician, university professor ; ; The family was originally called Bock, and János Bókay Hungarianized the name in 1849 – at the encouragement of Mór Jókai. He began his secondary school... Read More