Csécs Teréz: Arrabona - Múzeumi Közlemények 51. (Győr, 2015)
Debreczeni-Droppán Béla: Rómer Flóris emlékére készült szobrok és emléktáblák
ARRABONA 2013. 51. TANULMÁNYOK STATUES AND MEMORIAL PLATES IN HONOUR OF FLÓRIS RÖMER Following Flóris Rómer’s death in 1889 necrologies, biographies and memorial speeches appeared in sequence. The two most memorable ones were written by his students, friends and fellow scholars: József Hampel and Vilmos Fraknói. These memorial writings of “more lasting than ore” were followed by monuments made of real ore and stone. The first statue in honour of Römer was erected by the National Archaeological and Anthropological Association in Pozsony (Bratislava). The Association initiated a fund rising in 1895 for this purpose and it commissioned the sculpture Alajos Stróbl with the work, who finished Rómer’a bronze bust in 1899. The costs of the statue erection were reduced by Stróbl generous gesture, who did the job for free. Finally, the statue was erected on the Ferenciek Square next to the old town-hall. The statue was later taken away, and in 1998 it was placed in the yard of the old town-hall (today it is the City Museum) where it can be seen today. The erection of the next statue was initiated by Vilmos Fraknói the Chief Inspector of the Hungarian museums and libraries. The statue, which was placed into the garden of the Hungarian National Museum in 1916, commemorates the three founding fathers of the Hungarian archaeology: Flóris Römer, Ferenc Pulszky and József Hampel, since the sculptor József Damkó carved the portrait of these three scholars into the limestone relief following the pattern of the old Roman tombstones. The next Römer statue was made by Miklós Borsos from red marble in 1972. This bust is kept in the Museum of Applied Arts, while its bronze copy was erected on the Széchenyi Square in Győr opposite to the building of the Rómer Flóris City Museum. In addition to the statues several memorial plates were also made in honour of Römer. The first one, which was initiated by the historian Lajos Thallóczy, was unveiled on the wall of the Aquincum Museum in Budapest in 1910. This bronze bust was made by the sculptor Józsefné Darázs upon the commission of the local government of Budapest. Römer, as the most famous researcher of the Bakony Mountains, received a marble plaque in the Pantheon of Bakony in Zirc in 1971. This marble plaque with Rómer’s bronze bust on it was made by the sculptor Linke R. Kiss. In 1980 a memorial plate was unveiled in the Eötvös József Grammar School of Tata where Römer once had studied. Recently a memorial plate was placed in honour of Römer (and Dr. Béla Darnay-Dornyay) on the wall of the railway station of Porva-Csesznek in 2008. Béla Debreczeni-Droppán
