Lajos Szikszai
Lajos Szikszai was a Hungarian revolutionary, politician, Member of Parliament, vicecomes of Szilgy County and art collector.
Szikszai was born in Szilgysmson into a noble family. After 1840, he studied at the Calvinist high school in Zilah . He was a participant at the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. From 1862 Szikszai worked as a lawyer. In 1875 he became a member of the National Assembly of Hungary and from 1883 he was the vicecomes of Szilgy County. In 1880, Lajos Szikszai donated his private collection to the municipality and the first museum in Zilah was created. In his last years, he initiated the construction of the Tuhutum Monument, once located in a park in Zalu named after Lajos Szikszai.
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