In 1892 he occupied the position offered to him at the Debrecen Agricultural High College, between 1899 and 1904, then from 1908 until 1913 he was the director of the institute.

In 1920 he left Debrecen and moved to the Péter Pázmany University where he was the first professor of plant breeding until his retirement in 1935.

His research mainly focused on the soil conditioning and on fertilizers, but he also improved the agrotechnology of tobacco and rye cultivation.

He thoroughly studied the physico-chemical properties of soil, relationship between the water content and circuit and the crop quality.

For nearly half a century he was a prominent figure of the Hungarian agricultural education.