Szakáll Sándor - Jánosi Melinda: Minerals of Hungary (Topographia Mineralogica Hungariae 4. Miskolc, 1996)

At the end of the century the only monograph in Hungarian appeared on the minerals and their localities in historical Hungary (TÓTH, 1882). Mike Tóth (Fig. 5) worked on it for almost twenty years reviewing the stock of Hungarian and foreign museums, consulting the most up-to-date literature and visiting many mineral occurrences in Hungary (Fig. 6). Many of his data are valid to this date, though at times he was uncritical about information. It was partly in the footsteps of Tóth's monograph that Antal Koch brought out his monograph on Transylvanian minerals where he applied strict criteria to minerals known in Transylvania (1884-1885). This is the first Hungarian mineral topography which endeavours not only to quote authorities but to classify information as to its reliability, whether the data are certain, uncertain or false. Krenner, Szabó and their colleagues and students — Sándor Schmidt, Ágoston Franzenau, Károly Zimányi, Gusztáv Melczer — elaborated in many valuable studies on several minerals primarily with a descriptive mineralogical, crystal-morphological approach, but unfortunately did not combine their efforts for a comprehensive work covering the entirety of minerals throughout Hungary. Not even specific occurrences were expounded properly. Exception is Karl Peters' (who in the 1850's worked in Hungary) detailed study on the minerals of Rézbánya (PETERS, 1861). The international impact of Hungarian mineralogy reflected in Goldschmidt's essential monograph (Atlas der Kristallformen, 1913-1923) where several hundred illustrations show Hungarian minerals (though these certainly were not all described by Hungarians). On the territory of Hungary until 1920 39 currently valid minerals were discovered (Fig. 7). Krenner himself described 8 minerals valid to this day, his name (abbreviated Krn) figures the fifth edition of Dana's "System of Mineralogy" (DANA, 1892) because he had furnished for decades valuable data in crystalmorphology and mineral topography. We must make mention here of geologists who working on geological mapping in fact described minerals; many students of József Szabó and Antal Koch are involved (Ferenc Schafarzik, Hugó Böckh, György Primics, Béla Inkey).