Statue of Kőrösi Csoma Sándor
Statue of Kőrösi Csoma Sándor
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Address:
Bulevardul Cetății (Vár út)
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
GPS coordinates:
46.5481634927, 24.5682033084
History
Kőrösi Csoma Sándor (1784-1842) was a famous Hungarian traveller, founder of Tibetology, creator of the Tibetan-English dictionary and grammar. During his travels to the East he also researched the origins of the Hungarians.
Between 1940 and 1944, Marosvásárhely was again part of Hungary, and the Civil Boys' School (later Petru Maior University) took the name of philologist and orientalist Kőrösi Csoma Sándor. In 1941, Dabóczi Mihály was asked to make a statue of Kőrösi, which would be erected near the school, at the southern wall of the castle (next to the Cooper's Bastion). The statue, the work of Dabóczy Mihály, was unveiled in September 1943. In 1944, the Romanians returning with the Red Plague knocked it down and broke off its head. In the 1950s, the Party Committee approved the restoration of the statue, giving in to the demands of Hungarian students, so Kulcsár Béla restored the statue and in 1962 it was erected on the Castle Promenade, north-east of the castle.
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