Csengeriné Szabó Éva (szerk.): A Makói József Attila Múzeum Évkönyve 2. (Makó, 2018)

Történelem–História - Jámbor Zoltán: Egy kortárs emlékei

PÁL LÁSZLÓNÉ SZABÓ ZSUZSANNA

A makói gimnáziumtól a szegedi egyetemig és azon túl

From the Grammar School of Makó to the University of Szeged and beyond

For the past one hundred years, the University of Szeged has become the most significant intellectual-scientific centre in the Southern Great Plain. An institution offering scientific perspectives that decisively determines the life course of the students of Grammar School of Makó. The study non-exhaustively presents the major scholarly careers of the students from Makó at the University of Szeged, and then at the universities and research institutes in foreign countries between 1921 and 2016.

Chapter I outlines the possibilities of secondary and tertiary education in the Maros-Tisza region.

Chapter II discusses in three major periods the prominent people with significant scientific activity: first, the period between the two world wars, then the period from 1945 to the end of the 1980s, and finally the career paths and scientific successes of the last two decades are presented. Among them the most outstanding researcher and local historian of the town of Makó, the writer of six volumes of Makó's monograph and of innumerable local history studies, the researcher of Attila József, the creator of the Makó museum, enriching its collection, who is an active scholar and public figure even in his 90s, dr. Ferenc Tóth is honoured

The writing emphasizes in all major fields of science - law, arts, natural sciences and medicine - some talented ex-Makó high school students who have not only been recognized in scientific life in Szeged or in Hungary, but have been offered opportunities beyond that. They are welcomed guest speakers, researchers, members of international scientific societies and honorary doctors at prestigious universities in the world. They are the pride of Makó, its grammar school, of the University of Szeged and Hungary as well as of their professions.

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