The grave of Lajos Szeberényi

"Lajos Szeberényi, member of the Kisfaludy Society, evangelical theology teacher, born on 15 August 1820 in Maglód, finished high school in 1839 in Selmeczbánya (where he was a working member of the Hungarian self-education circle and made the acquaintance of Petőfi, with whom he was friends for a long time until a literary polemic interrupted their friendship), he completed his theology in 1841 in Bratislava. At that time he took up teaching, then studied law in Páp. In 1846 he obtained a law degree in Pest and moved to Pest, where he mainly worked as a newspaper writer. In 1848 he was a colleague of Kossuth's newspaper and edited the edition of Népbarát tót. Later he was a draftsman for the national police for three weeks and later saved himself and many of his comrades with the passports he obtained here. After the catastrophe he was taken prisoner by the Russians in Arad, but He escaped when he was tempted to Nagyvárad. Under the name Gábor Szelepcsényi, he hid in Hódmező-Vásárhely as a cantor teacher. From the end of 1851 he became a teacher at the Békés-Csaba Realískola, he was captured there and taken prisoner to Nagyvárad, after six months he was pardoned through the intercession of his mother, but was placed under police supervision and interned in Csaba. At that time he became a zealous cultivator of educational literature and started the journal Néptanítók Könyve, which he later continued under the title Iskolai Lap, until 1857 he became a pastor in Makó. In 1860 the then-established church of Szeged elected him as its pastor, and in 1864 he went to Bratislava as a Hungarian priest and teacher of practical theology. A few years later he was also given the office of notary of the Dunáninnen ecclesiastical district and the guardianship institute of the Dunáninnen ecclesiastical district. He also served as its chairman. He was also a member of the Bratislava city council. He was elected a member of the Kisfaludy Society. He died on June 4, 1875 in Bratislava.