Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

Part of the artists’ section

György Vastagh, Jr, over the grave of the paediatrician Pál Heim, the obelisk of Adam Clark, who supervised the construction of the Chain Bridge, the grave of Léda, the great Hungarian poet Ady’s muse, and that of the painter József Koszta, all buried in Sections 35 and 36, one finds the grave of Attila József. This is the poet’s fourth resting place in the spot where his second grave used to be, as he was first buried in Balatonszárszó, then in a tomb built in the Kerepesi Cemetery by his admirers in 1942 (this is where his mother’s remains transferred from the Rákoskeresztúr Cemetery were buried, too), after which he was interred in a grave of honour allotted to him in the Pantheon of the Labour Movement.

The promenade leads directly to the section of artists, scholars and scientists (34), where each and every grave would deserve mention. However, due to reasons of space, only a few can here be described. At the front, there is the tombstone, ornamented with a relief by Alajos Stróbl, of Miklós Ybl, designer of more than a hundred magnificent buildings including the Opera House. An ornamental sarcophagus marks the grave of the playwright Gergely Csi- ky. The second bust of the poet Gyula Reviczky to be found in this cemetery is the work of István Gách. This is also where Tivadar Puskás is buried, whose invention the telephonograph was made accessible to the public by his brother Ferenc, who constructed the world’s first telephone exchange. Representatives of a dazzling variety of the arts and sciences have been interred here: József Bajza, poet and theatre manager; Béni Egressy, who set the words of Vörösmarty’s “Appeal” to music; Jenő Heltai, po23