Jenő Kvassay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jenő Kvassay

civil engineer

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1850

Place of Birth: Buda, Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 06-Jun-1919

Profession: hydraulic engineer

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jeno Kvassay (Buda, 5 July 1850 – Budapest, 6 June 1919) was a civil engineer, specializing in hydraulic engineering.
He was a significant figure in the development of the Hungarian water service. After studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Pest, he attended the Hungarian Royal Economic Academy in Magyaróvár.
He completed his education at the École des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris.In 1876, Kvassay was the first to trace the saline pollution in the Great Hungarian Plain to the salt deposits (Lower Triassic evaporites) in the Austrian mountains.
Although, later research also confirmed the hypothesis of József Szabó that weathering of peralkaline and alkaline rocks also contributed to this effect.He went to work at the Hungarian Agricultural Ministry, and in 1879 founded and became the director of their "Civil Engineering Institute" (Kultúrmérnöki Szolgálat) which was primarily concerned with flood-prevention, irrigation and the development of agricultural water resources.
This later became the "National Water Bureau" (Országos Vízügyi Foigazgatóság (OVF)).
The current (2014-2020) national comprehensive water plan in Hungary is the "Jeno Kvassey Plan" (A Kvassay Jeno Terv).