Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 24. (Budapest, 1962)

The deads of the battle of Mohács

THE DEAD OF THE BATTLE OF MOHÁCS LÁSZLÓ PAPP, Ph. D. (Pécs) 'T-'he sixth Congress of Hungarian and Natural Physicians Scientists took place in the summer of 1846 in Pécs. On Aug. 8

th the assembled 500 members took to carriages and carts and adjourned to the "bloody field of Mohács". From the vineyards upon the hills rising at the northern end of the plain they were "looking down upon the grave of Hungary's glory" - writes Mr. Miksa Hölbling, "surgeon-doctor, honorary Physician in Chief of the County Baranya, ordinary member of the Royal Hungarian Society of Natural Sciences, and of the Medical Society of Budapest, - one of the secretaries of the 6

th Congress of Hungarian Physicians and Naturel Scientists". On the border of the battlefield Károly Kiss, "retired Captain, ordinary, member of ab o vemen tioned Society read a paper" about the great fight near Mohács. Captain Kiss, in his enthusiastic speech, told his audience everything there was to know in his time about this historic event. Not more, and maybe less than we know from the only Hungarian eyewitness, Bishop István Brodarics who, a year later, left a written testimony, his "Descriptio". The Captain having finished his speech, "the faces of the patriots present darkened, in their minds the painful remembrance of the bloody fight revivied leaving a wide field for bitter thoughts, their hearts pounded louder . .." The members of the Congress gravely pondered the question, where exactly the battle took place, on the plain before their eyes and wondered about the burial place of the dead warriors. 4* 51