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A Short Biography of Paracelsus

Author Name:

Paracelsus

Born As:

Phillippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.

Other Names:

Born:

11 Nov 1493

Died:

24 Sep 1541




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Physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer and occultist                          
Selected Works:

Published during his lifetime:

Die große Wundarzney Ulm - 1536 - Hans Varnier; Augsburg - Haynrich Stayner - Steyner - 1536; Frankfurt/ M - Georg Raben/ Weygand Hanen - 1536
Vom Holz Guaico - 1529
Vonn dem Bad Pfeffers in Oberschwytz gelegen - 1535
Prognostications - 1536
Posthumous Publications
Wundt unnd Leibartznei Frankfurt/ M - 1549 - Christian Egenolff; 1555 - Christian Egenolff; 1561 - Chr Egenolff Erben
Von der Wundartzney: Ph Theophrasti von Hohenheim - beyder Artzney Doctoris - 4 Bücher - Peter Perna - 1577
Von den Krankheiten so die Vernunfft Berauben Basel - 1567
Kleine Wundartzney Basel - Peter Perna - 1579
Opus Chirurgicum - Bodenstein - Basel - 1581
Huser quart edition - medicinal and philosophical treatises - Basel - 1589
Chirurgical works - Huser - Basel - 1591 und 1605 - Zetzner
Straßburg edition - medicinal and philosophical treatises - 1603
Kleine Wund-Artzney Straßburg - Ledertz 1608
Opera omnia medico-chemico-chirurgica - Genevae - Vol3 - 1658
Philosophia magna - tractus aliquot - Cöln - 1567
Philosophiae et Medicinae utriusque compendium - Basel - 1568
Liber de Nymphis - sylphis - pygmaeis et salamandris et de caeteris spiritibus

Selected English translations:

The Hermetic And Alchemical Writings Of Paracelsus - Two Volumes - translated by Arthur Edward Waite - London - 1894 - in Google books - see also a revised 2002 edition - preview only Partial contents: Coelum Philosophorum; The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers; The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists; The Aurora of the Philosophers; Alchemical Catechism

The Archidoxes of Magic by Theophrastus Paracelsus - translated by Robert Turner Facsimile reprint of the 1656 edition with introduction by Stephen Skinner - Ibis Publishing - 2004.                          
Mother 
Father Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim                          
Credited for giving zinc its name. At the time he called it zincum.                          
"Paracelsus", meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus", refers to the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus from the first century known for his tract on medicine.