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

Kisfaludi Strobl, over the grave of architect Flóris Korb and his daughter, painter Erzsébet Korb (Section 51). The Roman sarcophagus decorating the grave of Bálint Ku- zsinszky, the archaeologist who unearthed the Roman town of Aquincum, is already in the neighbourhood of the section of artists (Section 41). Close by lie writer Frigyes Karinthy and his two sons Gábor and Ferenc, also writers, under a memorial by Miklós Borsos. Ethnographer István Györffy, founder of a people’s college named after him, was laid to rest under a grave post. The remains of poet and translator Miklós Radnóti, martyred during World War II, were interred in Section 42 in 1946. Turning towards the entrance, in Section 33, there are the graves of chess grand master Géza Maróczy and the influential philosopher and pedagogue Sándor Karácsony. Walking further on, you pass by the graves of actress Emília Márkus and actor Artúr Somlay. János Pásztor rests under one of his own statues.

The imposing monument of composer and violinist Jenő Hubay is the work of Ede Teles (Section 25/1). Sculptor János Horuai was buried under his own statue entitled “Ecce Homo”, which thus replaced his former decaying wooden cross when the graveyard was re-arranged (Island 26). The grave of Alajos Stróbl, who designed numerous monuments similarly to Horvai, is ornamented with his own portrait (Section 26/1). It was presumably Jenő Bory who sculpted the monument over the grave of sculptor Miklós Ligeti - an empty chair with clothes placed on it, representing someone having passed away (Section 18/1). The wall forming the boundary of the cemetery on the opposite side is also lined by vaults and graves under protection; among them, can be found the vault of the Wagner family, which also serves as the resting place of Imre Steindl, the architect of the Hungarian Parliament. Writer Gábor Döbrentei is buried in Section 17, while towards the exit there is, on the wall of the cemetery, the memorial of Rudolf Bauer, the gold-winning discus thrower of the 1900 Paris Olympics.

The Salgótarjáni út Jewish Cemetery

In the year following the unification of Pest, Buda and Óbuda, the municipal authorities granted the Jewish community a portion of the territory belonging to Kerepesi út Public Cemetery. This separate cemetery falls under the management of the Jewish congregation, but no funerals take place here any more. Jewish cemeteries are significantly different from public and Christian ones in that graves can

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