Géza, Gróf Teleki

Between 1929 and 1942, as a hockey player of Magyar HC, Géza Teleki won the Hungarian championship three times. Between 1932 and 1948, he played 14 times for the Hungarian national team. As a member of the team, Teleki participated at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

He studied at the Universities of Vienna and Zurich and graduated in geography in Vienna with a doctor title in 1936. Between 1937 and 1940 he worked as a geologist at the Hungarian Royal Geological Institute in Budapest. From 1940 to 1944 he was a professor at the Hungarian Royal Ferenc József University in Cluj-Napoca, as head of the Department of Economic Geology and Geography.

In 1944 he was a member of the Hungarian delegation negotiating the ceasefire in Moskva. After the Soviet invasion, he became Minister of Religion and Public Education in the Provisional National Government. He resigned in 1945, however, due to protests from left-wing parties. In 1948, he emigrated from conceptual lawsuits and settled in the United States in 1949. From 1949 to 1950, he was a senior researcher at Virginia State University, Department of Foreign Studies, and from 1950 to 1955 he was a professor there. From 1955 until his retirement, he was head of geology at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and from 1956 to 1959 was a research fellow at the North American Institute for Arctic Research. He committed suicide together with his wife due to their incurable illnesses.