Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)
Institute. The general’s likeness once pointed at a map of Hungary with his by now broken sword (29/11). Not far from here is the tomb of the novelist Renée Erdős (29/1). Film director Gábor Body is buried in the neighbouring section (18/11). Next to the circular part at the comer, in the second row of Section 31, lie the young volunteers of the Görgey Battalion executed in 1944, some of whom were buried in unmarked graves. The huge monument of Endre Thék, owner of a furniture and piano factory, was erected at the corner of Section 30. His relatives are also buried in his vault, with Józsefváros magistrate Mátyás Morbitzer among them, and architect József Vas, who was one of the architects of the Kiskunfélegyháza Town Hall. Next to the place it once occupied lies ambassador and minister Béla Procopius under a family tombstone brought here from the Tabán-Krisztinaváros Cemetery (21/11). Following the main road of the cemetery, you can find the grave of art historian Márius Rabinovszky and his wife Olga Szentpál, a dancing teacher and piano player (33/1). Another pioneer of Hungarian sport aviation András Kvasz, whose life-story is recounted in Péter Müller’s novel Madárember (Bird Man) is also buried here (46/IV). Wrestler István Kozma, who twice won Olympic medals and became a European champion once and a world champion twice, is buried on the other side of the main road (47/11). Imre Harangi, Olympic boxing champion in 1936, lies in the next section (62/VII). Continuing our walk in this direction, we will reach the grave of architect István Janáky (76/111). Returning to the left-hand side of the road, you find, in the new military section, the tomb of Károly Takács, twice an Olympic shooting champion (75/11). Towards the crematorium in Section 89, you can see the resting place of architect and historian of architecture Kálmán Lux, and further off the grave of composer and conductor Richárd Fricsay (Section 86). During the walk suggested in this book, it is here that you are closest to Section 301, where the martyrs of the 1956 revolution lie buried. However, it is still a kilometre and a half away in the far corner of the cemetery. It may be worth returning at another time specifically to visit that section. At the circular junction at the end of the road leading from the crematorium diagonally south-east here, lie the ashes of the legendary wrestling world champion János Czája (Section 212). On the right of the main road, not far from it, you can find the grave of the expert on cemeteries Pál Károsy, whom the writers of the present volume regard as their predecessor having based some of their data on 43
