Ányos Jedlik

Ányos Jedlik (Hungarian Jedlik István Ányos, Slovak Štefan Anián Jedlík) (January 11, 1800 – December 13, 1895) was a hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Roman Catholic priest. He is considered to be the Unsung Father of the Dynamo. He was born in the in Zemné, in the Komárom county of the Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia). Both the Hungarian and Slovak nations claim him as one of their great inventors. Jedlik's education began at high schools in Trnava and Bratislava. In 1817 he became a Benedictine and from that time continued his studies at the schools of that order. He lectured at Benedictine schools up to 1839, then for 40 years at the Budapest University of Sciences department of physics-mechanics. Only few guessed at that time that his beneficial activities would play an important part in bringing up a new generation of physicists. In 1845 he began teaching his pupils in Hungarian instead of Latin. Through his textbook he is regarded as one of the establishers of... full article at wikipedia