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Het dagboek en alba amicorum van Sámuel Cseh-Szombathy

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Bozzay, R. (2023). Het dagboek en alba amicorum van Sámuel Cseh-Szombathy. Acta Neerlandica, 19, 27-46. https://doi.org/10.36392/ACTANEERL/2022/19/3
Abstract

In this paper I have analysed the itinerary of Sámuel Cseh-Szombathy, a former student
of the Reformed College of Debrecen. After having finished his studies in Göttingen and
Vienna, he started with a journey in 1790 through Southern German cities, the Dutch
Republic, England and finally France. During his journey he wrote an itinerary where he
made a record of his costs and what he as a medical doctor found interesting: hospitals,
madhouses, natural history collections and of course the most important medical
personalities of his time. My main questions are: How unique is this itinerary and how
well does it fit in the Hungarian tradition of itineraries of the Early Modern Time?