István Pajor memorial plaque

István Pajor (Ipolynyék, May 20, 1821 – Balassagyarmat, March 29, 1899) was a royal councilor, president of the county orphanage, lawyer, poet, translator, one of the central figures of the literary life of Nógrád county in the 19th century, one of the founders of the Nógrád County Museum, and a military officer in the War of Independence of 1848-49. His pen names were: Káldor in the 1840s, later Csalomjai. ; He participated in the last regular parliament as a juror, and fought throughout the War of Independence as a lieutenant. In 1849, the Hungarian government commissioner appointed him as the sub-notary of his native county, and later became the county's chief prosecutor. In 1849, government commissioner Lajos Boronkay sent him as a courier to Artúr Görgey, who was camped at Szentbenedek. As a lieutenant of the National Guard, he went with his troops to Vác, from where the Minister of War ordered all the troops back. On July 9, 1849, he fled to Komárom with his fellow officials. After the War of Independence, from 1850 he farmed on his ancestral estate in Csalomgái and practiced law. ; The memorial plaque was erected on the 175th anniversary of his birth by the Ipolynyék Municipality and the Palóc Society, in 1996.