Lajos Szikszai

Who is Lajos Szikszai?

Lajos Szikszai was a Hungarian revolutionary, politician, Member of Parliament, vicecomes of Szilágy County and art collector.

Szikszai was born in Szilágysámson 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 Szilágy 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, today located in a park in Zalău named after Lajos Szikszai.