Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 13. (Budapest, 1959)
Dr. TARDY LAJOS: Dr. Orlay János
of Szatmár) in the school-year of 1789/90. After a single year being already bored by a clergyman's career be competed for an appointement as a public-teacher. He was refused plainly by the schoolmagistracy —probably on account of his retiring from the order. For a while he tries to get on as a pedagogue, but in vain. The details of his emigration to Russia arc unknown. On the 6. May 1791 he appears already in Petersburgh —after having travelled through Lappland, the mountains of Ural and Caucasie on a look-out for the original home of the Hungarians. Later too he made serious inquiry-journeys in Ural and Caucasie for the discovery of the original home. In May 1791 he is already attending the medical-surgical faculty in Petersburgh simultaneously being assistant in the military hospital of that place. The author mentions, that in the same time Jakob Reineggs was working in this hospital too, he had also emigrated from Hungary to Russia after acquiring with distinction the doctor's degree at the Hungarian university of Nagyszombat. (Cf. the paper of the same author in the brochure No 6—7 of the Communicationes ex Bibliotheca Históriáé Medicae Hungarica pp. 166.) Orlay obtaines the medical degree in Petersburgh on the 14 February of 1793 and became soon assistant (Pomotshnik) of the scientific secretary in the medical college of the empire. Through his diligence and special knowledge he called attention of the Czar's physician in ordinary, a born Scotsman, named Wylie, to himself. He took the name Orlov (but only for a few years for taking again the original Hungarian family-name.) As Ivan Semjonovitsh Orlov he leaves for Vienna, awarded a Russian scholarship, there he enrolls in the Academy of Surgery, called Josephinum, but he visits the University of Jena too and there he becomes member of the "Mineralogical Society". During the years in Vienna Orlay gets in friendly terms with young progressive intellectuals from Hungary, namely those of Slavic origin, who learned or spent their time there. Later, when the Russian minister, Novosilzev gets on to the realisation of his policy of education, just for reason of Orlay's acquantences of Vienna, Hungarian scientists were invited to Russia. Moreover it is a fact, that Orlay aroused through his activity in Vienna the grave suspicion of the Austrian secret police, so that the emperor Francis ordered liimself the inspection of his correspondence and let a report made on the activity of Orlay, outlined in this present paper. On the 15. June of 1797 Orlay returns to Petersburgh. The author depicts his successes on the medical profession, the history of his appointcment as imperial eourtphysician and his collaboration at the edition of "Observationes Medieo-chiruigicorum Ruthenici Imperii"
