Laszlo Skultéty

* 1738. June 27, Hegyesmajtény, – † 1831. August 19, Arad / Hungarian hussar ; Birth name László Gábris. ; ; Life ; Born on June 27, 1738 in Hegyesmajtény (Mojtín), Trenčín County, today in Slovakia. His father was also a hussar, who, after the death of his wife, in 1750 took his half-orphaned son, who was then 12 years old, to the Ghillányi Hussar Regiment (from 1752 Hadik Hussar Regiment). He underwent his baptism of fire at the age of 18, during the 1756-57 campaign of the Seven Years' War, during which the Hungarian hussars, led by Hussar Colonel András Hadik, captured and plundered Berlin. From then until his death, he fought in all the wars of the Habsburg Empire, fighting against the French, Turks, Italians, Prussians and Russians, taking part in a total of 22 campaigns. He was wounded several times, and due to his heroism, he was promoted to master of the guard in 1790 and appointed as the regiment's standard bearer. When Emperor Francis I inspected his regiment in 1812, he noticed the then 74-year-old standard bearer. He went up to him and talked to him. He wanted to promote him to an officer and exempt him from all work, but the old valiant replied that he would only remain a cornet (standard bearer), because the standard could not be abandoned. He died in 1831, at the age of 93, in the 81st year of his service ; ; Skultéty's later life ; According to some opinions, János Garay based the character of his work The Obsitious on Skultéty, Háry János, the great-talking hussar. According to other sources, however, Háry János was the name of a real person living in Szekszárd, and the stories about him served as Garay's source. ; Ján Martiš (1931-1990), who was born and lived in Hegyesmajtény, wrote two books about Skultéty, entitled The Emperor's Eternal Soldier and Four Emperors in Service. ; ; Exhumation in 2013 ; At the end of May 2013, the Romanian authorities exhumed his remains from Arad, and then a Slovak Air Force military plane transported him to the Malacca military airport. His coffin was received by the Chief of Staff of the Slovak Armed Forces and his honor guard. According to Zsolt Semjén, the Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister at the time, there had been no previous indication that Skultéty's Hungarianness could be questioned. According to some opinions, the identity of the hussar standard-bearer could only be determined with certainty based on birth certificates and written documents. The remains of László Skultéty were transported to his native village.