Mihály Lajos Jeney

1723 or 1724 in Transylvania, d. 1797 in Pécs) – Hungarian military officer and general of Imperial Army (Holy Roman Empire), cartographer.

During Seven Years' War 1758–1763 served in Prussian Army as captain of military engineers.

On 1787 nominated as major-general of Imperial Army as Alt-Gradisko (now: Stara Gradiška in Croatia) fortress commander.

Author of popular manual of tactics: The Partisan, or the Art of Making War in Detachment... published in 1759 (French edition: The Hague) and English edition: London 1760, translated into many languages.

After Seven Years' War he provide military survey of Hungarian-Austrian Kingdom and result were 3324 sheets of topographic maps 1:28 000 and 1:96 000.

de Jeney: Le Partisan ou l`art de faire la petite-guerre avec succés selon le génie de nos jours – title page from first French edition published at The Hague in 1759