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The memorial plaque of the distinguished expert was laid by his admirers on Wednesday, on his birthday.
András Görömbei (1945–2013), Kossuth Prize-winning literary historian, university professor, full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and honorary citizen of the City of Debrecen, would have turned 80 this year. On the 5th of February, the day of his birth, the distinguished literary historian was commemorated with a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial plaque placed in his honour in the Kölcsey Center in the afternoon.
The memorial plaque contains the quote attributed to Bishop St. Martin (“Non recuso laborem” – I do not refuse work), which was also the motto of the professor’s work and ethos. After all, András Görömbei worked tirelessly and at a high standard throughout his life as a teacher, researcher, advocate of Hungarians abroad, and local patriot of Debrecen. “All true writing is action and judgment,” he expressed his own interpretative position as a monographer of András Sütő, László Nagy, Gáspár Nagy, and Sándor Csoóri. András Görömbei was an “exemplary man,” as his colleague, literary historian László Imre, called him.
Source:debrecen.hu
