{"title":"[Paracelsus research past and present: basic results, frustrated attempts, new approaches].","authors":"P Dilg","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As is well known, the Leipzig historian of medicine Karl Sudhoff inaugurated modern research on Paracelsus, providing it with a basis that has remained indispensable right down to the present. Pertinent scholarly contributions by Sudhoff date from 1887; they culminated first in the Paracelsus bibliography of 1894 and reached their fitting conclusion with the edition of Hohenheim's collected works, Abteilung 1: Medizinische, naturwissenschaftliche und philosophische Schriften; its fourteen volumes appeared between 1922 and 1933. Following the second world war the Marburg historian of religion Kurt Goldammer undertook the edition of Abteilung 2: Theologische und religionsphilosophische Schriften; this edition, building on Sudhoff's work, is likewise conceived as comprising fourteen volumes, of which six (together with a supplement), that is, half the projected total, have appeared so far (through 1986). Alongside these fundamental achievements, however, Paracelsus research in the more recent past has also been marked by a series of failed attempts. One of these is the index volume to the Sudhoff edition; it was put together under difficult circumstances, and even at the time of its appearance (1960) it failed to fully satisfy scholarly criteria. A further unsatisfactory aspect, it may be recalled, is the Paracelsus lexicon which was begun forty years ago, but which, despite the pressing need for a research tool of this kind, has still not appeared. Finally, it has not been possible, despite repeated efforts, to establish a Paracelsus institute in the sense of a centre for historical research. Under these circumstances, the continued care for what Paracelsus has bequeathed to us and the coordination of related activities have down to the present been provided for solely by the two pertinent professional societies, the Schweizerische Paracelsus-Gesellschaft (founded in 1942) and the Internationale Paracelsus-Gesellschaft (created in 1951), along with their respective periodical publications. A renewal in Paracelsus research today should accordingly not be limited to the investigation of discrete problems, still unresolved, that bear on Hohenheim and his work; indeed, new efforts should focus above all on clearing up, through interdisciplinary cooperation, the above-mentioned desiderata.</p>","PeriodicalId":76566,"journal":{"name":"Sudhoffs Archiv; Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte","volume":" 31","pages":"9-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19145664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Galen on Hellenistics and Hippocrateans: contemporary battles and past authorities.","authors":"G E Lloyd","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76566,"journal":{"name":"Sudhoffs Archiv; Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte","volume":" 32","pages":"125-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19353687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Theoretical, empirical and semantic aspects of water in Galen].","authors":"J A López Férez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76566,"journal":{"name":"Sudhoffs Archiv; Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte","volume":" 32","pages":"173-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19352887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Galen and medieval Armenian medicine].","authors":"S A Vardanjan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76566,"journal":{"name":"Sudhoffs Archiv; Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte","volume":" 32","pages":"193-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19352889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Galen and the utility of logic.","authors":"J Barnes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76566,"journal":{"name":"Sudhoffs Archiv; Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte","volume":" 32","pages":"33-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19352891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Galen on the topic of creation].","authors":"J Pigeaud","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76566,"journal":{"name":"Sudhoffs Archiv; Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte","volume":" 32","pages":"87-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19352895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The lay theology of Paracelsus from the traditional historical viewpoint and its classification to Reformation and Catholic reform].","authors":"H Rudolph","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Certain aspects of the theological oeuvre of Paracelsus--a body of work first described in painstaking detail and on the basis of the sources by Kurt Goldammer--still resist our understanding of them in appropriate historical terms. This circumstance is apparent in the various unanswered questions posed by the very biography of the physician and theologian: was his critical, reform-minded position vis-à-vis the Church in any way relevant to his choice of Strasbourg as a place of residence or to his being called to the position in Basel? Can certain manifestations in the activities of Paracelsus, who died within the Roman Catholic Church, be viewed as signs of a Nicodemism such as characterizes Agrippa von Nettesheim (a figure in some ways so close to Paracelsus)? From the very start, Hohenheim's accounts of himself reveal the art of medicine and theology as inextricably linked to one another. And in its development this linkage becomes in turn an essential element of autobiographical interpretation, with the result that the healing art, Christian faith, and the living of life are fused, through the self-awareness and activity of Paracelsus, into a fascinating unity. From this perspective, it proves to be difficult to assign his theological, world', having as it does its place in his total view of things, one based on Renaissance philosophy, to any single tendency or direction within the spectrum of Reformation thought and its critical approaches to the church establishment. Admittedly, in particular areas we may well suppose such a dependence to have existed, and certain classifications remain a possibility. But an affiliation of this kind, despite partial parallels in, say, the thought of Schwenckfeld, seems to break down precisely in the case of Paracelsus's teaching on the Eucharist; for at the heart of his Eucharistic ideas stands a distinctive concept of, limbus'--very likely unmatched in the thought of the Spiritualists--which is shaped by a distinction between what is earthly or mortal and what is heavenly, immortal. The same difficulty persists as well with the Paracelsian notion of the Christian magus. Here there are definitely models to be found in Renaissance philosophy; the magus concept peculiar to Paracelsus, however, is especially evocative of the unity (v.s.) characteristic of this physician-theologian in particular.</p>","PeriodicalId":76566,"journal":{"name":"Sudhoffs Archiv; Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte","volume":" 31","pages":"79-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19145662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Valentin Rösswurm: on the social history of Paracelsism in the 16th century].","authors":"R Jütte","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The reactions awakened in his own day by the lithotomist Valentin Rösswurm were not many but varied. Up to now only the controversy about his Paracelsus connection has been mentioned in some studies on Paracelsian medicine in 16th-century England. Nothing has been known so far about the social background of the foreign doctor who came to England from the Continent. New documents found in various European archives enable us to reconstruct the career of another disciple of Paracelsus who earned his living by lithotomy and herniotomy, being one of the many itinerant surgeons who flocked European cities in the early modern period. The new evidence also does justice to a man accused of being a quack by his English critics but who was in fact an experienced and literate surgeon no better and no worse than the local healers with whom he competed for wealthy clients.</p>","PeriodicalId":76566,"journal":{"name":"Sudhoffs Archiv; Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Beihefte","volume":" 31","pages":"97-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19145665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}