Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)
Starting our walk on the left of the main entrance, we pass by the military graves of the Italian soldiers, the grave of the famous leader of a gypsy band Laci Rácz the 36th (Section 2, Sub-Section V), and, in Section 7, the monument erected in memory of the Hungarian war dead buried abroad. This is where you can find Zoltán Kovács Bor- bereki’s statue “Hungarian Golgotha”, standing above the writer Tibor Hamzas grave (7/II). Another marble tombstone depicting a female figure can be seen above the tomb of the surgeon Professor Ferenc Czeyda Pommers- heim (7/II1). Walk on along the route parallel to Kozma utca and you approach, in Section 6, the graves of soldiers who lost their lives in the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848-49. Behind them, is Jenő Körmendi Frim’s memorial among the remnants of the military cemetery. In Section 3 lies András Adorján, a Hungarian aviation pioneer (5/X), who, together with Ferenc Dedics (17/1V), designed the first Hungarian made aircraft engine. In the neighbouring Sections 16 and 28, there are further remnants of the military cemetery, while between them are vaults reserved permanently and built without superstructures, which had once stood in the Kerepesi Cemetery but were transferred to this graveyard in 1953. András Saxlehner accumulated a large fortune and made his name by discovering medicinal wells in Buda and selling their water (16/1). The grave of sculptor Ferenc Sidíó and his wife industrial artist Karola Undi had featured a statue of the Madonna made by Sidló himself until it disappeared (16/IV). Several of the Hungarian pioneers of aviation are buried in this cemetery, including the first of its casualties Sándor Takács, who lies under a tombstone depicting a combat helmet (16/V). The grave of architect Adolf Feszty is temporarily marked by a post until the restoration of his monument transferred from the Kerepesi Cemetery is completed (16/VI). Frigyes Kochmeister, founder and first president of the Budapest Stock Exchange, is buried under a black marble obelisk (16/XIV). In the first row of Section 28, there are the graves of Dániel Wágner, the first Hungarian doctor-pharmacist and János Wágner, physician and university professor. Kálmán Babos, lexicographer as well as lieutenant of the revolutionary army during the 1848-49 War of Independence, and Dezső Gromon, deputy minister of defence and vice president of the Municipal Council of Public Works, lie buried in the same row, with a statue by Luigi Mazzi on the tomb of the latter. Sándor Krisztián’s statue decorates the grave of General Lajos Hajts, the commander of the Military Cartographic 42
