Achilles Pirminius Gasser

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Achilles Pirminius Gasser

Achilles Pirmin (ius) Gasser , also Achilles Pirmin (i) us Gassarus (born November 3, 1505 in Lindau , † December 4, 1577 in Augsburg ), was a German historian, doctor, medical writer and astrologer.

Life

Born as the son of the shearer and surgeon and later personal physician of Maximilian I , Ulrich Gasser, and his wife Ursula (née von Randeck), he enjoyed his first lessons at the Latin school in Schlettstadt and Lindau. He soon got in touch with Urbanus Rhegius , who made him familiar with physics and Martin Luther's ideas about the Reformation . In order to get to know these ideas better, he went to the University of Wittenberg in 1522 , entered the philosophical faculty there, studied the ancient languages ​​and also flirted with medicine.

Above all, he attended the lectures of Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . In 1525 he went to the University of Vienna , where he became close friends with Wolfgang Lazius , the son of his teacher Simon Lazius . This dealt intensively with medicine and historical research. Strongly stimulated in that circle, Gasser specialized in studying medicine. To do this, he went to the University of Montpellier and the University of Avignon . He received his doctorate in medicine on September 30, 1528 at the University of Orange . He then worked as a doctor in Feldkirch and moved to Augsburg in 1546 , where he worked until the end of his life.

Gasser was one of the authors of the Augsburg Annals. His extensive interests are reflected in an intensive correspondence, of which only 25 copies have remained. His collection of prescriptions as well as his multiple published treatises on the plague and the pharmacist's regulations are also preserved. He was involved in Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia. There he described the cities of Feldkirch , Chur , Lindau and Augsburg. He also drew a map of the Allgäu for this work . In addition, he dealt with astrological topics, wrote an astronomical outline of the globe, edited the gospel book by Otfried von Weißenburg , which he expanded to include a dictionary. His historical work "Historiarum et chronicorum mundi epitome" was placed on the index because he had advocated Matthias Flacius in it.

According to the Nicolaus Copernicus biography of Pierre Gassendi from 1654, Gasser was aware of his major work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium , published in 1543, and was an early adherent of his worldview.

Parts of Gasser's extensive library are now kept in the Vatican. In the Scientific City Library of Mainz , around 50 copies from Gasser's provenance form an important part of the remainder of the Bibliotheca Palatina . They are recorded as part of the provenance indexing of the rarity and can be researched via the OPAC .

Selection of works

  • “Ainfeltiger and green report on how mennigklich is supposed to keep, guard and nurse in Pestilentzischen transition with artzneyen and other Lybsnot” , Nuremberg 1544
  • "Undericht against pestilence ..." , Nuremberg 1564
  • "Historia altera de gestione fetus mortui" in R. Dodonnäus Rare examples of medical observations , Cologne 1581
  • "Historiarum et chronicorum mundi epitome"
  • "Aphorismorum Hippocratis methodus nova ..." , St Gallen 1584
  • Recipes in "Curationes et Observatines medicinales" , Ulm by GH Welsch, Ulm 1668
  • "Description and acceptance of the Comet, as it appeared in the autumn of 1532 jar ..." , Lindau 1532

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Werner Dobras: writers and poets of earlier times
  2. ^ Klaus Niebler: Books from the library of the Augsburg humanist Achilles Pirmin Gasser (1501–1577) in the Mainz City Library. An examination of the remnants of the Bibliotheca Palatina. Cologne, 1973