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

Detail from the monument to Mór Jókai

walking towards the exit, you can see the bust of the writer Zsigmond Móricz by Ferenc Medgyessy. Mihály Babits, poet, translator and editor, shares a grave with his wife Sophie Török, writer, buried under a relief by Béni Ferenczy. The tombstone of mechanical engineer and inventor Ottó Titusz Bláthy is ornamented with a sculpture featuring an angel by Lajos Petri. The sculptor György Zala, whose works include the Millennial Monument, rests in a grave under a tombstone by his fellow artist Miklós Ligeti. The grave of the founder of the daily “Magyar Nemzet” Sándor Pethő, historian and journalist, is marked by a red marble post carved by Pál Pátzay; there is a statue by Walter Ma- darassy over the grave of linguist Zoltán Gombocz. The poet Lőrinc Szabó lies under a carved wooden grave post; a statue by Elemér Fülöp can be seen over the grave of the anatomist Mihály Lenhossék; the resting place of István Énekes, boxing champion of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, is decorated with five circles, the Olympic emblem. At the next corner stands the family vault of the confectioner Gerbaud, a monument decorated with a statue by János Horvai. In the circular space in front of the archway is the huge, round monument of the novelist Mór Jókai, built around his original grave to plans by architect Jenő Kismarty-Lechner and sculptor Richárd Füredi to replace, on the 25th anniversary of the writer’s death, the grave post that had stood on the spot. Next to this rises the mausoleum, designed by Elemér Wachtel, of the Malosik family, evocative of the atmosphere Of a church cut in living rock in the manner of temples in the Far East. Behind this stands a statue of Endre Ady, an exquisite piece of sculp26