Tornalja (Sajószárnya)

Abraham Bodon

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* Gömörmihályfalva, 1810 – † Rimaszombat, January 31, 1871 / lawyer, landowner, member of parliament, writer on church history ; ; He studied law in Sárospatak and Losonc, although he originally wanted to be an engineer. In 1839 he took the bar exam, in 1840 he was present at the... Read More

Michael Forgon

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* Gömörmihályfalva, October 16, 1885 – † Tarnów, October 9, 1914 / genealogist, historian, lawyer ; ; He came from an old noble family. He completed his studies in Dobsina, then in Rozsnyó, at the Lutheran high school. Between 1904 and 1908 he studied law at the University of Bud... Read More

Hell Joseph Charles

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* Hegybánya, June 15, 1713 – † Hegybánya, March 11, 1789 / chief mine engineer, mining machine designer ; ; He was a student of Sámuel Mikoviny at the mining officer training school in Selmecbánya. At the age of twenty-two, in 1735, he had already assembled a swing-box water lift... Read More

Hello Miksa Rudolf

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* Hegybánya, 15 May 1720 – † Vienna, 14 April 1792 / astronomer ; ; He is the first in the Höll family whose name was used exclusively in the form Hell. Most encyclopedias and biographies list Selmecbánya as his birthplace, but he was most likely born in nearby Hegybánya. Hell wa... Read More

Emil Vaitzik

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* Hegybánya, August 9, 1867 – † Miskolc, 1936 / forestry engineer, entomologist ; ; He is considered to be of Slovak origin, originally named Vajcík. Between 1878 and 1886, he completed his secondary education in Selmecbánya, first at the Catholic gymnasium and then at the Evange... Read More

Sandor Javorka

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* Hegybánya, March 12, 1883 – † Budapest, September 28, 1961 / botanist, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; ; He completed his secondary school studies in Selmecbánya. He received his doctorate in humanities from the Budapest University of Science... Read More

Ferenc Revay

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* Hegybánya, March 6, 1887 – † Pilisszentiván, October 27, 1974 / forestry engineer, cave explorer, technical inventor ; ; He obtained a diploma from the Mining and Forestry Academy in Selmecbánya (1913). From 1913 he worked in Lippa, then in Recsk, and from 1926 at the Miskolc F... Read More

Gustav Faller

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* Hegybánya, February 23, 1892 – † Budapest, July 22, 1968 / mining engineer, natural gas explorer ; ; He graduated from the Selmecbánya Mining and Forestry Academy in 1914. He participated in World War I as a soldier. From 1919 he worked as a plant engineer at the Royal Hungaria... Read More

Zoltán Reguly

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* Hegybánya, September 13, 1904 – † Budapest, February 19, 1952 / mechanical engineer, inventor ; ; At the age of 18, the Patent Court accepted one of his invention applications. He obtained an engineering degree from the Budapest University of Technology in 1927. From then on, h... Read More

Wartner Mor

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* Ispáca, July 26, 1849 – † Párkány, June 8, 1921 / physician, genealogist ; ; He graduated from high school in Timişoara in 1868. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1872. He was a practicing physician in Csicsó from 1872 to 1874. It was at this time ... Read More