LÓCZY, Lajos. Pozsony (Bratislava) 2.11.1849 — Balatonarács/Balatonfüred 13.5.1920. Hungarian Geologist, Palaeontologist, Geographer and Traveller in Central Asia and China. Son of Sándor Lóczy and Mária Kuhn, school in Arad. After Technische Hochschule, Zürich, from 1874 worked in Hungarian National Museum. In the 1877-80 participated (like Bálint) in the Széchenyi Expedition to China. From 1889 Professor of Geography at Budapest. He was the first European to see the remains of Dunhuang in 1879 and to recognise its importance. It was his advice that ultimately brought M. A. Stein there. Married Eugenia Faur de Tövis (1859–1888) and 1889 Catherine Katalin Marzsó (1864–1925), two daughters and two sons. N.B. ancestors.familysearch.org give his full name as Louis Lajos Georg Emerich Ludwig Lóczy, but Louis, Lajos and Ludwig are just variants of the same name.
Publications: A kinai birodalom természeti viszonyainak és országainak leirása. 14+884 p. Budapest 1886 (Description of the countries of the Chinese Empire); A mennyei birodalom története. 1901 (History of the Celestial Empire).
– “Beobachtungen im östlichen Himalaja”, Földrajzi Közlemények 1907, 95-134; geological publications.
Sources: Benda, Ö.B.L. 5/23, 1971, 267; Bethlenfalvy 1980, 23; Wikipedia with photo (more in *Hungarian version).
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