exploreCARPATHIA
Attractions along the Carpathians
Transylvania / Romania

Bust of Mihályi János

Bust of Mihályi János
Biserica reformata din Sighet (5)
Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Settlement:
Máramarossziget, Sighetu Marmației
Address:
Piața Libertății 23.
Historical Hungarian county:
Máramaros
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
47.9285280061, 23.8843177674
Google map:
Google

History

Mihályi János was a Hungarian archivist, jurist, county prosecutor. He worked on the history of Máramarossziget in the 14th-15th centuries, analysing and translating documents and charters of the period. His work is in three languages: Hungarian, Latin and Romanian. A statue was erected to him as early as 1925, but as this was after the Romanian occupation, the authorities only allowed the statue to be erected with Romanian inscriptions. Hungarian soldiers mistakenly knocked it down in 1940, when Máramarossziget was liberated from the Romanian occupation. It was erected next to the Hungarian Calvinist Church in 1989. It is the work of Romanian sculptor Mihai Borodi.

Check out other sights in Máramarossziget as well!
{"item":"sight","set":{"sightId":1178,"townId":56,"active":1,"name_LO":"","address":"Pia\u021ba Libert\u0103\u021bii 23.","mapdata":"1|1101|977","gps_lat":"47.9285280061","gps_long":"23.8843177674","religion":0,"oldtype":"38","newtype":"38","homepage":"https:\/\/www.kozterkep.hu\/28119\/mihalyi-janos#","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"","csemadoklink":"","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022\u021aetcu Mircea Rare\u0219, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/ro\/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Biserica_reformata_din_Sighet_(5).JPG\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022256\u0022 alt=\u0022Biserica reformata din Sighet (5)\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/35\/Biserica_reformata_din_Sighet_%285%29.JPG\/256px-Biserica_reformata_din_Sighet_%285%29.JPG\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Biserica_reformata_din_Sighet_(5).JPG\u0022\u003E\u021aetcu Mircea Rare\u0219\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/ro\/deed.en\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA 3.0 RO\u003C\/a\u003E, via Wikimedia Commons","name":"Bust of Mih\u00e1lyi J\u00e1nos","note":"","history":"Mih\u00e1lyi J\u00e1nos was a Hungarian archivist, jurist, county prosecutor. He worked on the history of M\u00e1ramarossziget in the 14th-15th centuries, analysing and translating documents and charters of the period. His work is in three languages: Hungarian, Latin and Romanian. A statue was erected to him as early as 1925, but as this was after the Romanian occupation, the authorities only allowed the statue to be erected with Romanian inscriptions. Hungarian soldiers mistakenly knocked it down in 1940, when M\u00e1ramarossziget was liberated from the Romanian occupation. It was erected next to the Hungarian Calvinist Church in 1989. It is the work of Romanian sculptor Mihai Borodi.","town":{"townId":56,"name_HU":"M\u00e1ramarossziget","name_LO":"Sighetu Marma\u021biei","seolink":"maramarossziget-sighetu-marmatiei","oldcounty":23,"country":4}},"language":"en","region":"romania","regionid":4,"offer":[],"gallery":false,"album":false}