KENESSEY

HUNGARY (see also List of Individuals)

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26.10.1866 Iváncsa/H - 23.3.1936 Budapest/H

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Béla von Kenessey graduated as a rural engineer from the Budapest University of Technology and then was transferred to the irrigation and drainage departments of the districts of Brassó located today in Romania and Székesfehérvár. von Kenessey was later stationed in Komárom in today's Slovakia, where he was involved in river regulation works and irrigation projects. After having served at the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture, he finally was the head of the National Hydrographic Institute in Budapest.

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von Kenessey was interested in the hydraulics of drop structures as early as in 1934, in parallel to studies in Germany, such as by Josef Einwachter (1899-1955) or Alexander Ramshorn (1889-1960). Then, he investigated optimum methods for sewage treatment, yet hardly published results until being retired. Then, most of these investigations were submitted to the Hungarian journal Vízügyi Közlemények which continues successfully until these days. von Kenessey's main work was the book Water resources in agriculture, corresponding to a large compendium of his lectures on rural engineering as presented at the university. von Kenessey presided over the Hungarian Association of Engineers and Architects from 1927 to 1936. Thanks to von Kenessey, the journal Vízügyi Közlemények was reactivated after a period of slumber after World War I. The journal reflects the activities of engineers and water scientists of a small, yet active membership. It presents not only scientific papers but reports of national and international events and has a news section that gives a colorful impression of its members.

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_{Kenessey, B. (1927). Vízgazdálkodás a mezőgazdasági termelesben. Budapest. Kenessey, B. (1928). A Balaton. Egyetemi: Budapest.}

_{Kenessey, B. (1928). Possibility of discharge computation on the basis of cross-sections and surface velocities. Vízügyi Közlemények 11(2): 22-85 (in Hungarian).}

_{Kenessey, B. (1930). Lefolyási tényezők és retenciók. Vízügyi Közlemények 12(1): 55-76. Kenessey, B. (1930). A vakonddrain. Egyetemi: Budapest.}

_{Kenessey, B. (1930). A Balatonfőldvári Kvassay-Emelék. Vízügyi Közlemények 12(1): 3-6. Kenessey, B. (1993). A biblia női alakjai írta. Franklin: Budapest, reprint.}

_{Németh, E. (1936). Kenessey Béla von 1866-1936. Vízügyi Közlemények 18(1): 4-7 (in Hungarian). P}