Statue of Bolyai Farkas and János
Statue of Bolyai Farkas and János
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
GPS coordinates:
46.5431200098, 24.5644980012
History
In 1831, Bolyai János created the non-Euclidean geometry in his work Appendix. Unfortunately for him, his premature discovery was not understood until much later. It was not until 1894 that a memorial column was erected on his unmarked grave, and then in 1911 he was reburied with great pomp next to his father, Bolyai Farkas. Although they were not born in Marosvásárhely, the work of the Bolyai family is closely linked to the town: Bolyai Farkas was a teacher at the Reformed College, and Bolyai János was a student at the college, one of the greatest figures of Hungarian science. The two-figure stone statue, the work of Izsák Márton and Csorvássy István, was unveiled in 1957 in Bolyai Square, in front of the Reformed Lyceum, on the 400th anniversary of the school's foundation, when it took the name of Bolyai Farkas.
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