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or at the school. 34 Indeed, Schacht returned to Košice sometime between 1563 and 1566,<br />
when his name is mentioned in the town protocols. 35 In 1568 he took his burgher’s oath. 36<br />
Martinus Schacht was employed at the local church as cantor and at the urban school as a<br />
teacher; in 1572 and 1573 was still living in Košice. 37 His case is a good example of the town’s<br />
investment in the so-called professional development of its employees, by way of giving them<br />
the possibility to improve their knowledge and prestige at one of the reputed universities of the<br />
time.<br />
Another student, Gedeon Adami, worked at the local church before receiving fi nancial<br />
support from the town council to study in Wrocław, as confi rmed by an entry in the town protocols.<br />
38 He sent a letter from Wrocław in March 1575 asking the town council to confer a stipend<br />
on him so that he could continue his studies at the University in Leipzig. 39 Unfortunately, it is<br />
not known if this student went to the University of Leipzig or another institution after graduating<br />
from the school in Wrocław. In 1579, Adami was already in Košice, where he married and<br />
received burgher’s rights. 40 Related to this category is also the case of Caspar Pilcius, born in<br />
Spišské Podhradie, who studied in Košice and in Prešov. In 1573, before going to Wittenberg,<br />
Pilcius was a schoolteacher in Košice. 41 In 1574 he left for Wittenberg from where he sent his<br />
only letter preserved in the Košice town archives, addressed to Thomas Hilarius (Fröhlich),<br />
priest in the town, which is a very detailed description of his travel to the university and of the<br />
fi rst days after his arrival in Wittenberg. 42<br />
Sometimes it occurred that peregrinating scholars, who happened to be in Košice for<br />
different purposes or just on their way between two locations, learning that the town council<br />
sometimes lent a hand of support to travelling scholars, would address a letter to it with the<br />
hope of receiving some kind of assistance. One letter of this kind has been found in the letter<br />
collection. As in many other cases, unfortunately it is not clear what kind of response the town<br />
council gave in this or similar cases. The letter itself does not provide us with any detailed information<br />
either. It is not known if the author, Christophorus Zymermann, applied for fi nancial<br />
help or a job in the town. All we know is that he was coming from Olomouc in Moravia and that<br />
his way lead him through Košice. 43<br />
Amounts of money offered by the urban council to the students<br />
The importance of fun<strong>din</strong>g amounts is that it helps explain the situation of students from<br />
Košice within the students’ community and university society of the time. However, clarifyng<br />
the issues related to fi nancing students only becomes really valuable when balanced against<br />
34<br />
AMK H I, no. 2446/142.<br />
35<br />
AMK H III/2, MAC 14, folio 3v.: die 8 Februarii 1566 Martino Schochot cantori promisit senatus mutuo dare<br />
fl or. 25. [et dedit - written by another person]<br />
36<br />
Martinus Schacht sive Schochott ex oppido Mosocz comitatus Thuroczien., nunc cantor scholae et templi istius<br />
civitatis, productis ex exhibitis nataliciis literis per Senatum approbatis, ius civile conferitus est feria sexta<br />
proxima ante festum Thomae Apostoli quae fuit dies XVII mensis Decembris 1568.<br />
Source: AMK, H III/2, pur. 5, folio 475v.<br />
37<br />
AMK, H III/2 PUR 8, folio 181r and 196r. See also AMK H III/2, MAC 17, folio 10 r.<br />
38<br />
AMK H III/2, MAC 17, folio 43r: Gedeoni Adami studioso, cuius p[ate]r. hic fuit concionator Germanicis senatus<br />
donat in subsidium studiorum pro hac vero fl . 10 (1573, 31 Martii).<br />
39<br />
AMK H I, no. 3285/98.<br />
40<br />
“Gedeon Adami, natus Cibinii, receptus est in consortium iuris et libertatis civilis, die 10 mensis iulii [1579].”<br />
AMK H III/2 pur.5, folio 486r. See also AMK H III/2, PUR 7, folio 141v.<br />
41<br />
AMK H III/2, MAC 17, folio 45r: Casparus Pülcz hungaricum collaboratorem senatus installavit in schola die<br />
am 23 Tag Aprilis 1573.<br />
42<br />
AMK H I, no. 3219/111.<br />
43<br />
AMK H I, no. 4268/46, letter sent in May 1591 from Košice.<br />
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