Dugonics Square

About

The square was named after the piarist priest and teacher Andras Dugonics, the writer of the first Hungarian novel (Etelka, 1788). He was a language reformer, creator of numerous terms used in Hungarian mathematical language. His statue, which was erected from public donations, was the first statue in the public places of Szeged. The fountain opposite, inaugurated on the occasion of the centenary of the Great Flood in 1979. In the square the principal building of the University of Szeged, the early eclectic palace stands which was originally a secondary school. In front of the university we find the statue of Attila Jozsef, who was a student here between 1924 and 1925, and the statue of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, the Nobel-prized scientist, who was named as an honorary doctor of the university on several times. At the corner of the square and Karasz Street stands the Unger-Mayer House, designed by Ede Magyar. The lead ladies dancing on the dome of the Art Nouveau palace.