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