Széchenyi of Transylvania

His statue stands guard opposite the corner of the Székely Mikó College in Elisabeta Park. Imre Mikó, a progressive figure in the political life of 19th-century Transylvania, was the governor of Transylvania, Minister of Public Works and Transport of Hungary between 1867 and 1870, former Chairman of the Board of the National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca, Pastor of the Bethlen College in Aiud, member of the National Assembly and from 1847 Treasurer General of Transylvania. He was also called the Széchenyi of Transylvania. 

Count Imre Mikó Mikó started from the general concept of the nation, which considered language to be the main characteristic of a nation. As the destruction of the era of absolutism did not spare the schools, and the 1855 school law put Hungarian-language education in danger, Mikó used his foundations and authority to help the Bethlen College in Aiud, which had been destroyed in 1849, to recover, and took on the patronage of the college in Sfântu Gheorghe, founded in 1859 and later named after him, and wrote his name into the history of the school with valuable donations. His main work in his life is considered to be the founding of the Transylvanian Museum Association and the publication of the "Erdélyi Múzeum" (Transylvanian Museum) in 1859. 

Samu Csinta