G. Merva Mária: Írók és múzsák Gödöllőn (Gödöllő, 2013)

WRITERS AND MUSES IN GÖDÖLLŐ (Summary in English)

in theory, too, they wrote some books and articles. The colony had contacts with contemporary writers, poets and composers. The Gödöllő artists were innovators in book illustration. Elek Koronghi Lippich's volume of poems published in 1903 with illustrations by Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch and Sándor Nagy was hailed by contemporary critics as the first Hungarian Art publication. Because of the crown lands in the town different agricultural educational institutions could be established. These were the predecessors of the University of Agricultural Sciences, which was moved to Gödöllő in 1950. In 1918 the last Hungarian king, Charles IV, was informed of the collapse of the monarchy in Gödöllő. Between the two world wars the palace was the summer residence of Miklós Horthy, the regent of Hungary. The Premonstrant grammar school was built in the 1920s. In 1933 and 1939 there was a world meeting for scouts in Gödöllő. After 1945 a part of the baroque palace became an old people's home while the rest was used as a garrison by the Soviet army. The renovation of this outstanding historic building began in the 1990s and is still in progress. This book gives a summary of the traditions literary alluding to the cultural history of Gödöllő from the beginnings to the 1950s. 333