Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 54. (Budapest, 1970)
TANULMÁNYOK - Kubinyi András: The Social and Economic Standing of Persons Concerned with Health Treatment in Buda at the Turn of the 15th and 16th Centuries (angol nyelvű közlemény)
His wife was Anna his son Kristóf (Christopher) [34]. These data are interesting from two aspects, First, for the constantly used title "egregius", which in Hungary then was due only either to the medium estate owner nobility, or to the higher-ranking royal and baronial office-holders [35]. Secondly, for his membership of the town council, which shows that he belonged to the patricians of the town. He sent also his son, Kristóf, to Vienna for a study. But there is no evidence that the son intended to follow his father's profession. On April 14 1496 he entered the "artes" faculty of the Vienna university, and three years later he had himself enrolled in the so called Hungarian nation of the University. On the first occasion his name was written as Kristóf Chuntstock or otherwise Weger : so the Viennese still remembered his grandfather, whereas among the member of the "Hungarian nation" only his surname was mentioned. But in both cases he was referred to as nobilis, that is nobleman [36], There is still another mention of Kristóf in the sources. The 1527 inventory of the firm Fugger lists him among their old debtors in Hungary with a considerable debt, 118 florin 34 dénár [37]. It is obvious that doctor Gergely Kuntstock received his nobility in Hungary. As we have seen, he was of bourgeois origin and soon moved to Buda. The family must have been rather proud of their new nobility — a symptom not uncommon: a noblemen seldom stated his rank at matriculation because then he had to pay a higher matriculation-fee. The constantly used epithet "egregius" suggests that he must be considered to have been the physician of a very highranking feudal lord, perhaps the king himself, who obtained the nobility for him (or granted it). But he did not give up the civilian way of life even after receiving his nobility, and he took his share in conducting the affairs of the Hungarian capital as a town councillor. But he did not neglect his profession either. He kept up his contacts with his former university, which was honoured by the medical faculty not only by the honourable mention of his name, but also by allowing him to attend the faculty meetings when he stayed in Vienna [38]. The already mentioned physician Jacobus Joannes, who is to be distinguished from de Angelis, was also a house-owner in Buda, and, according to an evidence dating from 1506, a burgher as well, and was also given the title egregius [39]. He was a royal physician, and as such, was given a house at Obuda [40]. In 1525 King Lajos II commissioned one of his physicians, Jakab Mota of Italy, with the treatment of his ill captain of the sloops-of-war, Bosith Radies. Following the defeat at Mohács Mota took sides with King János Szapolyai, and was appointed „gubernátor" of the Episcopate of Eger, but was later taken prisoner. On that occasion we learn that he also took up the citizenship of Buda. He was looked upon as a man "skilled in murder and a liar" [41]. At the same time, from about the early 'twenties until 1529, the departure of the Germans of Buda, doctor of medicine János Weynmann worked in the capital. Data relevant to him show him almost without exception as one of the most confidential officials of George, Marques of Brandenburg, who was entrusted with wide responsibilities, and took part in conducting the economic affairs of the great
