page_title: József Kiss (engineer)
section_title: Epilogue
hierarchical_section_title: József Kiss (engineer) / Epilogue
caption_attribution_description: Српски (ћирилица)‎: Јожеф Киш, Нацрт за епитаф из његовог споменара који се налази у Државној Сечењијевој библиотеци (Országos Szécsény Könyvtár) у Будимпешти.
context_page_description: József Kiss was a Hungarian hydrotechnical engineer. He is best known for his work as the architect of the Great Bačka Canal, an important hydrotechnical and transport structure in the Bačka region of modern-day Serbia and Hungary. Architects built upon his ideas and incorporated the canal into the Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal system.
context_section_description: Stripped of all functions in the association, Kiss returned to his job as the leading engineer for Bačka. When he finally retired after 42 years of work, he received only a quarter of his pension from the Hofkammer, which was about 312 forints annually. The other three quarters were garnished in order to repay debts that he incurred after his expulsion from the association. He built a summer house near Vrbas, which he called Josephsruhe (English: “József's peace”). He spent the rest of his life there, until his death on 13 March 1813, and was buried nearby.
  Kiss’ notebook, titled Stammbuch and written in German and Latin contains entries about his family and work, along with sketches of famous historical figures such as Maria Theresia, Joseph II, and Napoleon Bonaparte. On the last page, he had sketched a desired gravestone and epitaph which reads:
  Here lays József Kiss, a Hungarian noble. He is immortal, for the Franz channel stands. He is mortal, for this cold marble. He was born in Buda 14 days before the April calends of 1748. He died in Sombor, among his friends from Bačka, on the third day of the March idas of 1813.
caption: The sketch of his desired epitaph
exif: {}