Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

flowers. Her braided gala tunic and photograph are kept in the Museum of Military History, and her memoirs are being published in the Proceedings oft Military History.

The "Poet of the Nation’s Heroic Epics”

Originally christened István, Czuczor assumed the name Gergely as a monk. He was admitted to the Pest seminary in 1820. Like the foremost exponents of reform-age literature, Czuczor undertook to write a heroic epic with a historical subject: he recounted the events of the victorious 910 Battle of Augsburg in hexameters. Károly Kisfaludy, who described Czuczor with the epithet quoted in the title above, published the epic in his journal Aurora. Later it was in the journal Urania that Czuczor's patriotic works written in a style of Romantic

■ Czuczor'ó folksongs appeared in the Komárom Almanac published by himself O830-35)

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