A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Historica 13. (Szeged, 2010)

HALMÁGYI Pál: A Pulitzer kultusz Makón (1911-2009)

térségi tanuszoda címzett támogatását a makóiaknak és a 16 környező település lakóinak. PÁL HALMÁGYI THE PULITZER CULT IN MAKÓ (1911-2009) It is not widely known even in Hungary, that the world famous media mogul, editor, multimillionaire, József Pulitzer, founder of the prestigious prize, was born in Makó, Hungary. This fact was proved by András Csillag in his issue published in the Makói Múzeum Füzetei in 1985. It is mostly thanks to him, as well as to Ferenc Tóth, head of museum, and to Mrs. Imre Antal that the Pulitzer cult has developed in Makó. Present study reviews this development, stressing the influence of foreign and domestic politics, as well as economic surroundings on the judgement of Pulitzer's activity. Today a memorial plaque can be seen on the place where Pulitzer's native house stood, a bust was erected on the main square of the town, a secondary school dormitory was named after him and the town founded a memorial prize for talented young journalists. 236