Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

ical map of Hungary in 1896. He was awarded a medal in 1897 for "the pioneering work done in the field of Hungary's petroleum-geology". He urged and participated in the construction of a head office for the geological institute, which was thus able to move into its own building as early as 1899.

In recognition of Böckh's merits, King Francis Joseph 1 made him a member of the nobility, awarding Böckh the title "of Nagysur" in 1907.

His popularity is best illustrated by the fact that the satiric weekly Jack Pepper carried the following verses when Böckh died in May of 1909:

"With a German name but a Magyar heart / Did you follow HANTKEN in his art / And brought about a fine new brand / Of science in thy native land // But only now that rest you found / Do you really know what’s in the ground.

János Böckh lies buried in an honorary grave; his work was carried on by his son Hugó.

The Geological Society undertook in 1911 to set up a statue in the Kerepesi Cemetery to honour the memory of its late chairman. Alajos Stróbl’s design was sculpted by his disciple Lajos Rápolthy in 1914. The unveiling ceremony had to wait, possibly due to the Great War, until July 1917.

Hauszmann's Glory

An outstanding work of Alajos Hauszmann's is the imposing building at 12 Kossuth Lajos tér, District V, an edifice that was originally raised to house the Palace of Justice, comprising the Royal Supreme Court and the Royal Budapest Court of Appeal. The newly established National Gallery was moved to the premises in 1957, to be later followed by the Museum of Ethnography. Naturally, the interior was appointed in accordance with the original purpose of the building, and the external statutory was also meant to symbolise the legal function of the edifice. Topping the tympanum is a Chariot, sculpted by Károly Senyei, with the allegories of the Giver and the Seer of the Law on either side, carved by János Fadrusz. The compositions within the tympanum above the entranceway were sculpted by György Zala, while the figures of the Convict and the Released - together with the Defence and the Prosecution, standing on the central projection - are the work of Gyula Donátit and József Róna. Inside, two semicircular flights of stairs conjoined at the top lead to justice, Alajos Stróbl's sculpture dominating the magnificently elegant interior.

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