Engineering officer, mathematician, creator of the non-Euclidian geometry. He was born in her mother, Zsuzsanna Árkosi Benkő’s house in Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania) His father, Farkas Bolyai (1775–1856) was an outstanding mathematician of his time. He came from a Hungarian family from Eastern Transylvania. Their family-tree can be traced back until 1276. They had an […]
Hungarian prelate, church historian, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member of Parliament. As a Member of Parliament he served his country and favoured progress. He came from a middle class-family; he graduated from high-school in Miskolc (1812) and studied philosophy (1812) and theology (1817) in Eger. In 1817 he was ordered priest and in the same […]
Architect, designer and technician, an outstanding personality of his time. His father was a teacher in Makó. At he age of ten Schmidt lost his parents, so he moved to Arad to his sister, whose husband had a brazier workshop, and Schmidt served his apprenticeship there. Because of the constant loud noise he left the […]
General, knight of the Saint-Stephen order, founder of the Hungarian Stallion Institutes. In his diary the 27-year-old captain of the Hussars wrote the following about this turning point in his life: „While I was remounting, I had the time and the opportunity to follow horse breeding and make remarks. I gathered and sorted them out, […]
Linguist, editor, university professor, the founder of Hungarian linguistics. An outstanding figure of the Hungarian Enlightment. Polyhistor of his time – man of letters, linguist, a brilliant professor. He had a very prolific literary and scientific activity, – he was among the founders of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and he was also skilled in […]
Erudite bishop, Jesuit teacher, noble man and landlord. Kőszeghy László was born in Szeged-Felsőváros. He started his studies in a Piarist school in Szeged, then he studied philosophy at a university in Buda. In 1765 entered the Jesuit Society. He was a Jesuit with classical education, and was teaching in Jesuit schools; his superiors wanted […]
Mineralogist, chemist, founder and editor of scientific review, knight, court counsel, member of Royal Society and other scientific societies. Ignác Born (in German texts mentioned as Ignaz von Born), was an excellent scientist of his time. As the Commissary of the Mining Office, he was the first in Hungary to be interested in mining, the […]
Nobleman, landlord and captain general of Temesvár (today Timişoara, Romania). The capatin generals of Southern Hungary remained in office in their headquarters in Temesvár, even after the Battle of Mohács (1526). Until 1530 there were many captain generals on Kaiser Ferdinand I’s side, like Péter Perényi (1526-1527) and Bálint Török (1528-1530). Beginning from 1541 this […]
General, Lord Lieutenant, Captain General and Lord Chief of Justice of the South region King Matthias entrusted the battle against the Turks to his renowned general, Pál Kinizsi. Tradition has it that Kinizsi was born in Kinis, Bihar county (today Bihor county, Romania). According to Romanian sources his birthplace might have been in Kenézfalva (today […]
Military leader, Voivode of Transylvania, governor of Hungary, Lord Lieutenant of Temes County One of the greatest military leaders of his time called „the Turkish defeater”. Between 1441-1456 he was the Voivode of Transilvania and the Lord Lieutenant of Temes County. He was the son of Vajk and Erzsébet Morzsinay. According to Romanian sources Vajk […]
