J. Antall szerk.: Medical history in Hungary 1972. Presented to the XXIII. International Congress of the History of Medicine / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 6. (Budapest, 1972)

E. Schultheisz and L. Tardy: The Contacts of the two Dees and Sir Philipp Sidney with the Hungarian Physicians

E. S çĥų ĥeis z—L. Tardy

: The Contacts of the two Dees.

.. 107 Verancsics, Listhy, Dudits, Istvánffy and Purkircher, but also the representatives of the international scientific world: Crato, Clusius, Busbecq, Blotius, Lipsius and others. It was this humanist group, maintaining international contacts, that the young Sidney entered on the side of Langųet. Through the persons of Sambucus and his Hungarian friends Sir Philip Sidney became naturally interested in Hungary. When Carolus Clusius, the greatest botanist of his age, director of the botanic gardens of the Emperor in Vienna, who belonged to Sambucus's friends,

34 left for Hungary, Sir Philip Sidney accompanied him. "John Buxton believes that Langųet had known Sidney's intention to accompany Carolus Clusius to Hungary, imagining he would not stay longer there than three days, "but he stayed at least a month."*

5 The correspondence of Langųet and Sidney was published in 1633 in book form too;

:i6 in the first letter Langųet thanks for the letter Sidney wrote from Pozsony and expresses his pleasure that at his recommendation Sidney was so warmly received by Georgius Purkircher, doctor medicinae. Dated 22 September 1573 this letter proves that these relations were rather extensive, and also las3

J Gerstinger, H. op. cit. pp. 16, 22, 150, 161, 162, 206, 231, 232, 279, 280. 3

5 Buxton, J.: Sir Philip Sidney and the English Renaissance. London, 1954, p. 61. 3,

i Huberti Langveti, viri clarissimi epistolae politicae et históriçáé, scriptae quondam ad illustrem et generosum Dominum Philippum Sydnaeum etc. Francofurti, 1633. Languet's letter to Sir Philipp Sidney in which he mentions Georgius Purkircher Hungarian physician