Veterinarska stanica, Vol. 52 No. 3, 2021.
Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.46419/vs.52.3.7
Kuršmids-Mareskals
Petar Džaja
; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia
Sonja Sinković
; Croatian Veterinary Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Magdalena Palić
; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Mihalj
; Veterinary Practice Soljani, Croatia
Krešimir Severin
; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
German word Kurschmied (kur-curing, schmied-blacksmith) is adequate to romanic word mareskalk -marh (horse) and gothic word skalk (servant). Particular kind of kuršmid were military kuršmids. Their activity is vanishing at the beginning of the 19th century and of military kušmids in second half of the 19th century, but in Austro- Hungarian monarchy in 20’s of the 20th century. The first written material regarding kuršmid in our country originated from Mladen II. of Bribir from the year 1314., when mareskalk Nolpjio temporarily stayed at his castle. The veterinarians protested against their activity because they thought that would not be able to treat animals based on their education, which will be finally confirmed. Following graduated course they may treat horses and performed meat inspection if they were trained for it. Although some authors quoting that kuršmids and mareskals are the same profession, the other authors quoted that kuršmids were subordinated to mareskals, so thus in this paper these titles are described separately. Considering the subjects that they attended and graduated, we may quote that mareskals provided significant contribution in treating of domestic animals, i. e. horses.
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16.12.2021.
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