András Cházár's headstone

András Cházár Jólészi was born in the settlement in 1754, and as a highly skilled lawyer and, among other things, as the founder of deaf-mute education in Hungary (1802, National Royal Institute of the Deaf-Mute, Vác), he would take his place among the greatest through his work for the Hungarian people and the poor. At the end of his life, due to his tough stance (he spoke three times against the rule of Emperor Joseph II), he was neglected, and posterity almost forgot him. According to his will, he was buried in the tomb built at Grulyavár in Jólészi. It should be known that Grulyavár was actually a summer residence and a potato farm, as he was the first known grower of potatoes in Gömör County, which he distributed to the needy during the famine. Grateful posterity set up a memorial room in his restored birthplace, and a bust of him stands in front of the house. Streets bear his name in Budapest, Rozsnyó, Vác and Jólész. ; The headstone in front of the birthplace, the work of woodcarver Béla Hlivák, was erected in 1999. ; ; Life: ; András Császár (Jólész, June 5, 1745 - Rozsnyó, January 28, 1816): lawyer, judge, county clerk, legal writer, advocate for the downtrodden and disabled, enthusiastic initiator of the establishment of the first Hungarian special education institution (the Vác Deaf Education House, 1802). Author of numerous published and unpublished legal works (in Latin and German).