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

fine Hungarian Art Nouveau style featuring colour ceramic ornamentation. What the curious stranger cannot possibly guess is that the model of the sculpture, János Böckh, was a student, in 1858, of the Selmecbánya Academy of Mining and Forestry. These youngsters had numerous "unpleasant scrapes and collisions” with the Austrian police. Böckh's first work was related to the geological survey of settlements in Nógrád County. In the employ of the Ministry of Agriculture, he urged, in 1868, that the territory of Hungary be mapped by Hungarian geologists. He conducted detailed geological surveys in Veszprém and Zala Counties between 1869 and 1872, which was followed, in 1876, by a geological and hydrological study of Pécs and its environs yielding information essential for the city’s water supply. In the same year he was made an associate member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was invited to join the faculty of Geological and Palaeontological Departments of the universities of Graz and Prague, but he turned down these offers. In 1882 he was appointed director of the geological institute, succeeding Miksa Hantken. Participating in the preparation of the Millenary Exhibition, he published the geolog■ Janói Böckh, pioneer oh Hungary'ó petroleum reiearch