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

Painter Lili Ország’s grave

found. Immánuel Lőw, rabbi of Szeged and learned botanist, has been laid to rest here. The grave of General Gyula Kepes, physician, member of the polar expedition sponsored by the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, lies here, too. Two distinguished mathematicians Kornél Lánczos and Pál Túrám, a scholar of international renown in the field of psychoanalysis Sándor Ferenczv, the poet Lajos Palá- gyi; the graphic artist Arnold Gara and the architect László Vágó, buried under a monument depicting several of his works, are also interred in this cemetery.

Returning to the oldest part of the cemetery, you can continue the walk from the passage-way at Section 17. This is where the Muslim-style grave of the great orientalist Gyula Germanus, also known by his assumed Arabic name as al-Hadj-Abdul Kharim, can be found. Near this spot, in Section 18, rest the publicist and critic Béla Mát- rai-Betegh and the historian István Hajnal. The plaque commemorating all deceased Hungarian Olympic champions was unveiled at the corner of the section towards the main road a few years ago.

The grave of sculptor Ede Teles, ornamented with a nude figure in mourning made by the artist himself, is in Section 19; painter Lili Ország, whose pictures render the tragedies of our century in surrealistic visions, lies in the same section. Irén Gulácsy, author of great historical novels, also rests here buried in a common grave among the casualties of the air raids of early 1945. Somewhat further up lies Lajos Ordass, the unjustly reviled Lutheran bishop.

At the circular part in the south-eastern corner of the

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