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

Ferenc Gammel’s sepulchral sculpture in the middle

OF THE DECAYING MILITARY CEMETERY

War of Independence of 1848-49. Birsy was imprisoned in a fortress for seven years. Mention must also be made of architect Aladár Arkay and film director Géza Raduányi, both interred in Section 33. The urn cubicles marked D in the columbarium contain the ashes of writer Lajos Zilahy and philosopher József Réuay, who was martyred under communist terror in Gyömrő.

Along Érdi út is an archway with partly deteriorating urn cubicles closed off from the public. Opposite this structure, you can already see Section 35 with the grave of writer János Kodolányi at its corner, ornamented with a dual portrait-relief by Tamás Somogyi. In neighbouring Section 36, there is the grave of Olympic champion József Bozsik, one of the pillars of the “golden eleven”, who scored a goal in the legendary match against England in London in 1953, where Hungary won 6:3.

It is worth walking from here to the sections left out of the sequence of numbers above. Directly in Section 28 rest two professors both called Tibor Verebéig and both physicians; Sári Fedák, remarkable prima donna at the beginning of the century; István Uyiri, architect; Gusztáv Oláh, versatile and dynamic stage manager and stage designer of the Opera House; and architect Móricz Pogány, one of the designers of the National Theatre whose plans

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