Bust of András Khazár

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. The grateful posterity has arranged a memorial room in the restored house of his birth, and a bust of him stands in front of the house. A street bears his name in Budapest, Rozsnyó, Vác and Jólész. The greater part of the house serves the local faithful as a beautifully decorated Catholic church. The headstone in front of the house of his birth, the work of woodcarver Béla Hlivák, was erected in 1999. His bust was commissioned by the Jólész Cházár András Civic Association and the Fáy Károly Association of Hearing Impaired and Disabled Persons and was inaugurated on September 27, 2008, with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Budapest and Jólész Municipality. ; ; Life: ; András Cházár (Jólész, June 5, 1745 - Rozsnyó, January 28, 1816): lawyer, judge, county clerk, legal writer, advocate of the downtrodden and disabled, enthusiastic initiator of the establishment of the first Hungarian special education institution (the Deaf Education House in Vác, 1802). Author of numerous published and unpublished legal works (in Latin and German).