György Bernády was the mayor of Târgu Mureş twice, 1900–1912 and 1926–1929. In this period the City Hall and the Cultural Palace in Târgu Mureş

Cultural Palace in Târgu Mures

The Cultural Palace is a remarkable construction in the center of Târgu Mureş . It was built to the request of György Bernády by Marcell Komor and Dezső Jakab .- Outside description :...

 on the Roses Square were both built. His name is associated with public illumination and sewerage in the city. In this period many schools, libraries and art galleries were also built.

Biography

He was born to Hungarian parents. His father, Dániel Bernády was an apothecary.
György studied in Marosvásárhely and Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

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He had a son, Györgyike, born in 1919 in his fourth marriage, but he lost him very quickly, after 17 years.

Bernády's statue is located in front of the Teleki house, in a place named after him. The statue's creator is Bocskay Vince, from Sovata

Sovata

-History:It formed part of the Székely Land region of the historical Transylvania province. The first data about Sovata are from 1578. By 1583 it already was a village....

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Modernization

György was the first initiator of the town modernization

Modernization

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He had many goals such as sewerage, roads asphalting, building of the power and water station, building of several bridges, regularization of the Mureş River

Mures River

The Mureș is an approximately 761 km long river in Eastern Europe. It originates in the Hășmașu Mare Range in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, Romania, and joins the Tisza river at Szeged in southeastern Hungary....

 stream and building of public buildings such as – the Town Hall, the Cultural Palace in Târgu Mureş

Cultural Palace in Târgu Mures

The Cultural Palace is a remarkable construction in the center of Târgu Mureş . It was built to the request of György Bernády by Marcell Komor and Dezső Jakab .- Outside description :...

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He founded and settled the Academy of Music, the Municipal Library and the Art Galleries.
There were constructed several buildings to host primary, secondary schools and universities

University

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His work

• "Az erdélyrészi földgáz kérdésről" (Questions about Transylvanian natural gas) (Târgu Mureş, 1913)
• "Intelmek" (Remonstrances) (Târgu Mureş, 1916)
• "Nyílt levél" (Open letter) (Târgu Mureş, 1920)

External references

• http://www.mures.ro/article.php/The-history-of-Tirgu-Mures/113/