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Lajos Mitterpacher
(1734-1814)
CREATOR: Ödön Takács

PLACE: Budapest, City Park

PHOTO: Ákos Maróti Agóts

his statue (Museum of Agriculture)

Lajos Mitterpacher (1734-1814), Jesuit abbot, first professor of agriculture in the University of Buda in Hungary. His work of great importance, entitled "Elementa rei rusticae in usum academiarum regni Hungariae conscripta, Budae 1779-1794" was written in Latin in three volumes with a part on veterinary science. He and Sándor Tolnay intervened for the saving of the Department for Veterinary Science existing in Pest in 1796.
The bronze bust of Lajos Mitterpacher can be found in the park near the Museum of Agriculture. (MMJ)