Biographies/Adam von Bodenstein

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Names

Adam von Bodenstein

Basic Biography

Born: 1528 in Kemberg

Baptized:

Died: March 1577 in Basel

Buried:

Grave:


Family

Father: Andreas Bodenstein (ca. 1477-1541)

Mother: Anna von Mochau

Siblings:

Married to: (1) 1549 Esther Wyss, daughter of Hans Wyss and Marie zu Rhein; (2) 1565 Maria Jacoba Schenk zu Schweinsberg (1524-1618), daughter of Georg Schenk zu Schweinsberg

Children: 15 children


Education and Professional activity

School attendance:

Training:

University education:

  • Basel, Baccalaureus 1546
  • Basel, Magister artium 1548
  • Freiburg im Breisgau
  • Leipzig
  • Mainz
  • Ferrara, Doctor of medicine 1550

Professional activity:

  • 1551 in Vienna
  • until 1559(?) in the service of Otto Henry, Elector Palatine‏‎, as physician "von Haus aus"


Network

Bodenstein was a follower of Johannes Calvin and Théodore de Bèze. Since November 1558, he was a member of the 'Consilium facultatis medicae' at the University of Basel. In 1563, he accused Sebastian Castellio of heresy (Pelagianism) and libertinism. In 1564, he was excluded from the faculty and the consilium due to his Paracelsian publications.

In Basel, until his death, he worked as a physician. He engaged in alchemical laboratory activities, among others, with Pierre de Grantrye, the royal French envoy in Switzerland.

He dedicated his books to members of the higher nobility and to members of urban leadership classes. He had connections to notable Paracelsists (Michael Toxites, Gerhard Dorn, Georg Forberger) and physicians (Samuel Schlegel). He also engaged in correspondence with Leonhard Thurneisser.

Among Bodenstein's opponents were the Galenist Bernhard Dessenius and the Paracelsist Jacques Gohory. His old adversary, Theodor Zwinger, who became a Paracelsist in his later years, composed an epitaph for Bodenstein.


Portraits

Writings

Publications:

Manuscripts:

Letters:

  • to Theodor Zwinger (November 14, 1576); Basel, University Library, Ms. Frey-Gryn. II 28, 20; autograph
  • to Otto Henry, Elector Palatine, 1554; Dresden, State and University Library, Msc. J 345, 246−248; copy

Papers:


Sources

Online

Dictionaries

  • August Hirsch, in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biogrpahie, v. 3, 1876, 7-8
  • Gerhard Eis, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, v. 2, 1955, 356
  • Pearl Kibre, in: Dictionary of Scientific Biography, v. 1, 1970, 49-50
  • Joachim Telle, in: Walther Killy, ed., Literaturlexikon, v. 2, 1989, 45-46
  • Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, v. 1, 1995, 604
  • Carlos Gilly, in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, v. 2, 2003, 528
  • Joachim Telle, in: Walter Killy and Wilhelm Kühlmann, ed., Literaturlexikon, v. 2, 2008, 14-15
  • Joachim Telle, in: New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, v. 19, 2008, 308−310
  • Joachim Telle, in: Verfasserlexikon – Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1520-1620, v. 1, 2011

Main Sources

  • Alfredo Perifano: Considérations autour de la question du Paracelsisme en Italie au XVIe Siècle. Les Dédicaces d’A. de B. au Doge de Venise et à Côme Ier de Médicis. In: BHR 62 (2000), 49−61
  • Frank Hieronymus, Theophrast und Galen - Celsus und Paracelsus, 2005
  • CP 1, 104−544

Pre-1800

  • Nathan Chytraeus, Variorum in Europa itinerum deliciae, Herborn: Christoph Rab 1594, 568 (VD16 C 2802; 2wlnAAAAcAAJ); idem, Variorum in Eurioa itinerum deliciae, 2nd ed., Herborn: Christoph Rab 1599, 439 (VD16 C 2803; 2wlnAAAAcAAJ); idem, Variorum in Europa itinerum deliciae, 3rd ed., Herborn: Christoph Rab 1606, 439 (VD17 23:249222C; j1xCAAAAcAAJ)
  • Otto Aicher, Theatrum funebre, Salzburg: Johann Baptist Mayr 1675, 321 (3_c_XsV2Z8YC)
  • Jacobus de Richebourcq, Ultima verba factaque et ultimae voluntates morientium, Amsterdam: J. F. Lucas 1721, 43 (HrZQAAAAcAAJ)
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  • Salomon Theophilus de Meza, Tentamen historiae medicae, v. 1, Copenhagen: C. G. Proft 1795, 197 n° 14 (EjElCXcqXYsC)

Other

  • Karl Schottenloher: Pfalzgraf Ottheinrich u. das Buch. Münster 1927, s. v.
  • Will-Erich Peuckert: Pansophie, s. v.
  • Carlos Gilly: Zwischen Erfahrung u. Spekulation. Theodor Zwinger u. die religiöse u. kulturelle Krise seiner Zeit. In: Basler Zs. f. Gesch. u. Altertumskunde 77 (1977), 57−137
  • Karl-Heinz Weimann: Paracelsus-Lexikographie in vier Jh.en. In: Medizinhist. Journal 16 (1981), 167−195, hier 167−170
  • Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Court Physician and Paracelsianism. In: Medicine at the Courts of Europe, 1500−1837. Hg. v. Vivian Nutton. London, NY 1990, 79−94
  • Vivian Nutton: Der Luther der Medizin: ein paracelsisches Paradoxon. In: Paracelsus. Das Werk − die Rezeption. Hg. v. Volker Zimmermann. Stgt. 1995, 105−112
  • Peter O. Müller: Die Wörterbücher des 16. Jh. s. In: Fachsprachen. Hg. v. Lothar Hoffmann [u. a.], Halbbd. 2. Bln. 1999, 2392−2401, hier 2396 f.
  • Michal T. Walton: Iatrochemistry. In: Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution. Hg. v. Wilbur Applebaum. NY, London 2000, 319 f.
  • Müller: Lexikogr., 491 f.
  • Didier Kahn: Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (1567−1625). Genf 2007, s. v.
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