Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 97-99. (Budapest, 1982)

KISEBB KÖZLEMÉNYEK - ELŐADÁSOK - Csillag István: Gruby Dávid (angol nyelven)

Now I have discovered another book by Emma De Gerando (Teleki) published in Paris also without the name of the author.

48 In the preface she devoted some warm lines to Gruby, and certain pages in the book (219-231) were written by Gruby. It was mainly about the care and transport of the wounded of the battle-fields. Expertise and humanity spread from every line of the book. Emma De Gerando (Teleki)'s daughter, Antonina translated Jókai's novel The stony hearted man's sons into French to propagate the cause of Hungarian fight for freedom. Antonina obtained a degree in Paris and became a great champion of modern education for girls in Hungary. Antonina was also a devotee of Dávid Gruby, she wrote in a letter to Zsigmond Justh; that when a child he had saved her life and since then she had been looking up to him as god.

49 She wrote a panegyric on him in Pesti Hölgyfutár (Ladies' Courrier of Pest) no. 3,1878 under the title "Our compatriot in France".

50 Gruby wanted every county in Hungary to send a youth abroad for a three years long study tour that the country should keep up with Europe. Gruby offered all his instruments to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and appointed as his heir the University of Technology in Budapest. During the siege of Paris he set up his own hospital to care for the wounded. At his own expense he had new maps carved for the Prussian-French war and distributed them gratis in the army. I have found a bundle of letters in the archive of manuscripts of the Széchényi Library. The catalogue marked it as letters from seven unknown persons to Dávid Gruby. I could 48 De Gerando, Ágostonné: 1867-i Világtárlat. (World Exhibition 1867.) Vols. I—II. Paris, 1868. Előszó (Preface) VIII, and Vol. II, pp. 219—231 49 National Széchényi Library, Archive of Manuscripts 80 De Gerando, Antonina: Egy franciaországi hazánkfia. (Our compatriot in France.) Fővárosi Lapok, 1878, no. 3