Samuel Roth (geolog)

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Samuel Roth (born July 18, 1889 in Wierzbowie, Spiš, died November 18, 1889) is a German pedagogue, geologist, speleologist and tourist activist. >

He attended high school in Kezmarok, studying at the University of Budapest. After obtaining his doctorate in 1874 he was a junior high school professor in Levoča, and since 1887 he was the head of the junior high school. He was a great educator, author of numerous works and articles on pedagogical topics and school textbooks on botany, zoology and mineralogy. For his students he often organized tours, among others. in the Tatras.

He conducted scientific research in the field of geology, glaciology, limnology and speleology of the Tatra Mountains and their surroundings. He was active mainly in Spisz. He has published numerous scholarly works in the Hungarian and German languages, such as the Tatra rocks, the former Tatra glaciers, the rise of valleys and the Tatra lakes. He was one of the first explorers of caves in the area of ​​Hungary at that time, especially in Spiš and in the Tatra Mountains (he described the caves of the Bielské Tatry and the Jawor Valley). Based on studies of a number of caves in the Tatras, Pieniny and so. Krasny Ruzinski has shown that they have been inhabited by people since the Paleolithic period and is today considered a pioneer of Slovakian speleoarcheology. He also talked about issues related to Tatra tourism and published popular articles about Tatra nature (about marmot, scabbard and mountain pine, etc.). Some of Roth's scholarly works have been discussed, summarized or even translated in contemporary Polish publications, such as the Lviv "Cosmos" and the Warsaw "Universe."

Roth was one of the most active activists of the Hungarian Carpathian Society (MKE), from 1877 a member of his board of directors, and from 1884 to 189 was the vice president. He contributed a lot to the Carpathian Museum in Poprad.

He died suddenly at the age of 38. He was buried in Levoča. In the German and Hungarian names of the Tatras was honored him by giving his name to Zadni Gierlach (German Samuel Roth Spitze, Roth Sámuel-csúcs), but these names did not hold. Some publications Bibliography

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