Draft:Márton Cseh

Márton Cseh (Márton Boehm, Márton Böhme) (1562 – ?) was the chief horseman of the Prince of Brandenburg.

His life

At the age of 15, in 1577, he followed Colonel Zsigmond Kurtzpach to Germany and served his master there for three years as a stable boy. Then he came to Hungary with him, and here, at Colonel Rosel Claudius, he served as a medical counselor for seven years at Szentendre in the cavalry.

At Eger, the Turks captured him and he was taken to Constantinople, where he served pasha Mustafa with a 15 pounds chain on his feet was working on entrenchment, as well as served the horses for two years. Then a Jew bailed him out and brought him to a galley near the coast of Africa. He fled from there by swimming.

He spoke well Turkish and Hungarian, so through Moldova he came to Hungary for the German black cavalry and served Szigfrid Kollonics.

In 1587 - at Szikszó - he fought against the Turks.

Then I.Keresztély, Saxon prince elector took him, who then sent him several times to Hungary to buy horses. He spent three months in France with his master, and finally went to the courtyard of Brandenburg.

He was also engaged in healing horses, but he couldn’t write, read, so he dictated his experiences.

Sources

• József Szinnyei: Magyar írók élete és munkái II. , Budapest: Hornyánszky. 1893