Statue of Anonymous, Bronze statue in City Park, Budapest, Hungary.
The Statue of Anonymous is a dark green bronze by Miklós Ligeti, placed in 1903 on Széchenyi Island in City Park, facing the entrance of the Agricultural Museum in Vajdahunyad Castle. A seated, hooded scribe holds a quill in the right hand and rests the left on an open book; the pale stone plinth beneath reads ANONYMVS = GLORIOSISSIMI BELÆ REGIS NOTARIVS.
Sculptor Miklós Ligeti created this monument in 1903 to honor the unknown author of the Gesta Hungarorum. This medieval chronicle records the arrival of the Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin and serves as the oldest surviving account of Hungarian origins.
The inscription on the plinth names the figure as the notary of King Béla, and the hood hides his face because his identity was never established. The statue was made in 1903 by Miklós Ligeti, who turned that open question into the monument's central image. The Latin text reads ANONYMVS = GLORIOSISSIMI BELÆ REGIS NOTARIVS.
The monument is located in City Park along Olof Palme Street and is easy to find while walking through the green space. The spot is accessible and surrounded by quiet areas where you can pause and observe the sculpture closely.
The hood hides the face because the writer's identity was never established; Ligeti turned that gap in the record into the sculpture's subject. The stone plinth names him only by his office, as notary of King Béla. The seated figure holds a quill and an open book, the tools of the chronicler.
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