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Hreblay Emil

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* Košice, 19 Apr. 1868 – † Prešov, 1930 / agronomist, poultry farming specialist ; ; After obtaining his farmer's certificate, he was the head of the Istvántelk Horticultural Institute in Budapest, then the secretary of the Sáros County Economic Association in Prešov. From 1897, ... Read More

Alfred Grosz

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* Késmárk, August 25, 1885 – † Késmárk, March 1, 1973 / teacher, mountaineer, Tatra explorer ; ; His father, Ernő Grósz (1833–1900), was the director of the Késmárk high school. His son graduated from high school there in 1903, then became a student at the Košice Agricultural Aca... Read More

John Benczur

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* Losonc, May 29, 1817 – † Rimabrézó, July 12, 1852 / lawyer, legal writer ; ; His father was a Lutheran pastor and moved with his family to Nyíregyháza in 1827, where his son started high school and finished it in Prešov. He studied law in Pest and took the bar oath in 1842. In ... Read More

Joseph Loos

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* Necpál, December 11, 1839 – † Budapest, July 7, 1878 / linguist, teacher, textbook writer ; ; He completed his secondary school in Bány-Bisztercs, his university studies in Vienna, but he obtained his teaching qualification in classical philology in Pest. From 1862, he taught a... Read More

William Bruimann

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* Prešov, 19 November 1819 – † Budapest, 1896 / mining engineer, geologist ; ; He began his school studies in his hometown. In 1839–1843 he was a student at the Selmecsbánya Academy, then studied geology in Vienna. Between 1846 and 1853 he was an assistant professor at the Selmec... Read More

Ferenc Andras Hutÿra

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* Szepeshely–Zsibra, September 6, 1860 – † Budapest, December 21, 1934 / veterinarian, physician, pathologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1921) ; ; He actually spent his childhood in Szepesváraljá, and later returned there during the summer holidays. He complete... Read More

Csirbesz Jonas Andras

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* Szepesváralja, November 11, 1732 – † Igló, January 11, 1813 / Lutheran pastor, poet, naturalist, geographer, flora researcher ; ; He completed his school studies in Dobsina, Levoca, and between 1749 and 1752 in Bratislava, where he was also taught by János Tomka-Szászky (Folkus... Read More

Alexander Painter

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* Szepesváralja, November 21, 1883 – † Budapest, December 30, 1944 / philologist, literary historian, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1938) ; ; Graduated from Igló. He completed his university studies in Budapest as a member of the... Read More

Oszkár Merényi

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* Tótsóvár, June 28, 1895 – † Budapest, March 19, 1981 / literary historian, private university teacher, Berzsenyi researcher ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Prešov, then from 1913 he was a student of the Hungarian-German department of the Pázmány Péter Universit... Read More

Erzsébet Ásgúthy, Körtvelyessy

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* Prešov, 1895. Sept. 9. – † ibid., 1984. Jan. 25. / poet, prose and playwright ; ; He came from a gentry family in Sáros, and took his literary name from the village of Ásgúth in their first name. He graduated from a teacher training college. In the years following the 1918 coup... Read More