Priest belonging to the charity order, geologist, professor.

His native town is Kassa, where he also attends the high-school. In 1873 he enrolls for the University in Budapest and attends lectures of Geography, History and History of Arts; for two years he had been working in the museum’s warehouse of ancient objects. In 1874 he joins the charity order then, he becomes a gymnasium teacher at Kecskemét, Sabinov (today in Slovakia), Temesvár (Timisoara), Veszprém, Szeged, Kolozsvár (Cluj), Levoca, Székesfehérvár and Nagykároly (Carei).

He is firmly convinced that a geographer has to be a polihist too and he also obeys this principle. As a teacher, belonging to the charity order, at the upper gymnasium, he teaches in more towns, and each move provides him with a new challenge, the possibility to enrich his stock of knowledge, the approach and development of new and various themes. His activity related to the region of Banat offers the knowledge and competence which, during that period of time, the movements concerning the study of the country and the organized tourism really needed. However, his achievements cannot emphasize the creations related to Temesvár arbitrarily as this would mean the constitutive mutilation of the whole creation. Yet one has to underline – while also considering the connections – all which had inspired him, everything he had created and left us.

As the secretary of the Society of Natural Sciences in the Southern Hungary, he supervises the publication of the three editions of the Természettudományi Füzetek at Temesvár, and as the general secretary of the Carpathian Association in the Southern Hungary, Délvidéki Sport newspaper and Déli Kárpátok, a Geography magazine. His main creation is a general one (universal Geography, in 5 volumes), yet he also approaches themes referring to the geography and ethnography of the Banat region: A Kárpátok és folyóinak nevei , A délmagyarországi havasokban , A délmagyarországi bolgárok ethnológiája – the last mentioned is a monography.

He edits articles related to Geography and tourism in the Kelet Népe (The People of the East) a magazine published in Budapest, in Földrajzi Közlemények (Geographical Communications), in Turisták Lapja (The Tourists’ Newspaper) in Budapest, in the year book of the Carpathian Associations in the Szepes county and Transylvania; for 27 years he had been the co-worker of the Magyar Állam (The Hungarian State) magazine. In Veszprém he is the one, who founds the Balaton Association, and in Carei he founds the Kölcsey Circle; in Temesvár, together with Áldor Imre, he organizes a literature association and founds the Ethnographic Museum in the Southern Hungary. His work, In the Magic Forest, is interpreted thrice at Temesvár. In Nagybecskerek he is selected to be part of the Cultural Association’s management in Torontal.

He enjoys special professional merits and carries out more functions. He is a co-worker of the Hungarian Association of Geography, the secretary of the Society of Natural Sciences in the Southern Hungary, and for many years he had been a management board member of the Carpathian Association in the Southern Hungary.

Professionally, he reaches the highest level in 1910 when, as a successor of Lóczy Lajos, he is officially appointed a secular professor at the Faculty of Science, the department of Geography, a function he accomplishes until the end of his life. This event partially surprises him given the fact that, as a geographer, Czirbusz Géza pretended to be the disciple of Hunfalvy János, a powerful opponent of the school, aiming to study the natural sciences, developed under the supervision of Lóczy Lajos.

He formulates his opinion regarding the science of Geography in the following way: Let us leave the earth, as a star, or as a part of the physical world of the outer space, in the attention of astronomers or geophysics, and the description of the earth, more exactly the inferior levels of the atmosphere and the highest level of the ground’s cover, as a stage where human actions and historical events are performed, this is the way it can and must be dealt with from now on, only in its connection with man and only from this viewpoint in order to comprehend the species’ extension in the space, the ideal and political competition of the nations on the surface of our earth.”

What has to be highlighted in the development of his personality is that, starting with 1874, he is a member of the charity order; moreover, his relationships with the others, beside a strict obedience of polite formulas, are also influenced by the typical education received at the schools attended in the priests’ world.

The dialogues one enjoyed with him were „coloured” by his special logic, he was very talented in discovering connections among things and notions, which were apparently heterogeneous, ties which were totally unexpected in the mind of an ordinary man. We might assume that there was exactly his spiritual nature the one which did not let him found and run his own school of Geography.

Could it be possible that he was more than a polihist?