Béla Gerster
1850–1923 (age 73)
Biography
Béla Gerster, born in 1850, was an architect and engineer whose expertise in large-scale infrastructure lent itself to visionary projects, including planning ambitious waterways that linked Hungary with the wider world.
His technical insight and international perspective helped pave the way for developments that balanced aesthetic sensibility with practical utility, earning him esteem among contemporaries and posterity alike.