Fodor József szobra - Budapest

Galántai József Fodor (Lakócsa, July 16, 1843 - Budapest, March 20, 1901) Hungarian physician, university professor, internationally recognized hygiene, "first apostle of our public health". He graduated from the Cistercian High School in Pécs in 1860, then studied in Vienna and at the University of Pest, where he was appointed doctor of medicine in 1865. In 1866 he won one of the assistant professorship positions at the then medical department of the then medical professor at Rupp János. In 1868–69 he was also a chief medical officer at the Rókus Hospital. In 1869 he was appointed as a private professor of public health and soon received a state scholarship to go on a two-year European tour. He spent more time in Munich with Max Pettenkoffer, a pioneer in public health as a pioneer, and the founder of his first university department, then visited the Netherlands, France and England. His particularly valuable experience in England - taking into account the more developed social conditions and advanced industrialization - was summarized in a book of 500 pages in 1873, referring to the country's underdeveloped conditions and their potential for improvement. In 1872 he was appointed to the new Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cluj-Napoca, and from there he was invited to the Department of Public Health set up for him in 1874 at Orvoskar, Pest, two years later. He organized the educational program of the young discipline, the work schedule of the institute, which later provided a sample for the national hygiene network to be built. He was the initiator of the establishment of a network of school physicians and the wide dissemination of health knowledge. As a researcher, he showed some 'bacterial' substances in the blood, opening the gates of immunology to mankind. The national school of public health has contributed to creating public health teaching the science of microbiology-immunology placed in the foundation and development of the recognition of international creative ways too. In 1885, together with Lajos Markusovszky, he was the founder of the National Association for Public Health. With his research, his performances and his critiques, he contributed significantly to the most up-to-date solution of water supply and sewerage in the capital. His suggestions - as Endre Hőgyes wrote about him - have gone into the public consciousness: “The capital's health government has tried to act in the spirit of hygiene, improved the water pipeline, started the big sewer construction, and tried to raise the capital cleanliness of the capital in every field. at the end of the years, even in the most unhealthy metropolitan area, he was in second place with forty and even more promille deaths, today one of the healthiest with seventeen nineteen promille deaths… ” He has received many domestic and foreign awards for his work: in 1883 he was a correspondent, and in 1885 he was elected as an ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and was admitted as a dock at the University of Cambridge, and became a member of many European public health societies. In 1901 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize at the University of Budapest.

Bust in Guttenberg Square. József Fodor was one of the pioneers of Hungarian immunology, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. One of the founders of public health science. His work deserves more recognition. A lifelike, classic sculpture, the ornament of a small space. Today it is surrounded by the Playground.