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SZABO VON

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 318 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SZABO VON  SZENTMIKLbS, JOZSEF (1822-1894), Hungarian geologist, was

born at
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Kalocsa, on the 14th of March 1822 . His first contribution to science was an essay on metallurgy, in which subject he had received
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special training . Afterwards he settled at
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Budapest and investigated the geology of the
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district, the results of which were published in a
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geological map (1858) . In 18J9 he joined the staff of the
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Austrian Geological Survey, as a volunteer member, and paid attention to the economic as well as to the purely scientific aspects of the
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work . He also arranged for surveys having special reference to agricultural geology to be undertaken by the Hungarian Geological Institute . In 1862 he became professor of geology and
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mineralogy in the university of Budapest . In later years he devoted himself largely to
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petrology, and published
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memoirs on the trachytes of Hungary and Transylvania; on a new method of determining the
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species of felspars in rocks, depending on fusibility and flame-coloration; on the geology and petrology of the district of Schemnitz; and on Santorin Island . He died at Budapest on the 12th of
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April 1894 . He was author of Geologie mit besonderer Riicksicht auf die Petrographie, den Vulkanismus u. die Hydrographie (1883) .

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