Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)
thinker and politician of this century; actress Hédi Dévai-, Károly Bieber, wrought-iron master; Dezső Fábián and Károly Szittya, Olympic water-polo champions; and Gábor Thurzó, writer. Opened in 1922, a Jewish burial ground is close by, so much so that due to being completely surrounded by the public cemetery, this facility can no longer be extended. In the Budafok cemetery rest hussar of the 1848 regiment Pál Térey; György Donáth, a politician executed in 1947; and Olympic footballer Lajos Csordás. Olympic kayak champion János Urányi is buried in Csepel. Pest- szenterzsébet is where the graves of the following can be found: Flóris Török, who served as a captain in 1848 and later was appointed deputy military commander of Pest, and champion runner Aranka Kazi. It is in Kispest where agricultural engineer Imre Rázsó and Endre Somogyi, cartographer and senior sports administrator were interred. In the old cemetery of the same district lies the bridge- builder Aurél Czekélius. The Pestszentlőrinc cemetery is the final resting place of the builder of the Vladivostok port Antal Szentgáli. Writer József Réuay is buried in Cinkota, while Rákospalota holds the remains of mineralogist and palaeontologist Ágoston Franzenau; László Buday, member of the golden eleven; and Ferenc Soós, table-tennis player and many times world-champion. Finally, the Új- pest-Megyer Cemetery should be mentioned, as here lie three persons whose divergent destinies earned them the respect due to heroes - Mária Lebstück, lieutenant in the war of 1848; Olivér Halassy, member of the Olympic gold winning water-polo team who continued his career after having a leg amputated; and the young poet Attila Gérecz, who was killed by a bullet on a Pest street after being freed from prison in 1956. Naturally, as anywhere else in the world, in Budapest there are also graves in churches, family graveyards and mausoleums. Some of the more significant ones are described below. There are few identifiable royal vaults, which is why the grave of Béla III and his wife Ann of Chatillon in the Buda Matthias Church is especially precious. Their remains were placed here at the end of the last century in a sarcophagus carved by Ferenc Mikola. The tomb of St Margaret, daughter of Béla IV and Dominican nun, is marked by a memorial stone among the ruins of the cloister on the island named after her. Dating back to the time of the Turkish occupation of Hungary, the tomb of Gül Baba (died 1541) in Mecset (mosque) utca is a major shrine for Muslim pilgrims. One 69
