Andreas Reichlin from Meldegg
Andreas Reichlin von Meldegg , also Andreas Reichlin the Elder or Andreas von Überlingen (* around 1402; † July 27, 1477 in the Salem Monastery ), was a Constance patrician who worked as a doctor and pharmacist on Lake Constance .
Life
After studying in Heidelberg and Padua , Andreas Reichlin worked in 1433 as a physicus juratus ( medical officer or city physicus ) in Constance , as a council doctor at the council of Basel and as a personal physician to Emperor Friedrich III. and Pope Pius II.
In 1455 Andreas Reichlin moved to Überlingen , married into a local council family, received Überlingen citizenship in 1456 and opened a pharmacy in the same year. He had the building, known today as Reichlin-von-Meldegg-Haus , built in the then ultra-modern Florentine Early Renaissance style, which today houses the city museum .
The von Meldegg family is said to come from the canton of St. Gallen . Around 1400, the last male scion, Hans von Meldegg, is said to have given the family coat of arms to his friend Jodokus Reichlin , which gave rise to the double name of the Swabian noble family . In 1465, Andreas Reichlin let Emperor Friedrich III. confirm the Meldegg coat of arms.
Andreas Reichlin was married three times and had five children. His son Klemens became mayor of Überlingen in 1484.
Works
- Government and order against the pestilence
- Pestilence booklet , published around 1450, reprinted in 1512
literature
- Günther Thömmes: The legacy of the beer wizard: Historical detective novel . Gmeiner-Verlag, October 8, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8392-3422-8 , p. 211 (accessed January 8, 2013).
- Hartmut Boockmann: The city in the late Middle Ages . CH Beck, 1986, ISBN 978-3-406-31565-7 , p. 315 (accessed January 8, 2013).
- Marion Harder-Merkelbach: The medicus from Lake Constance . Edition Isele, Eggingen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86142-457-4 . (historical novel)
- Gundolf Keil : Reichlin, Andreas d. Ä. (Andreas von Überlingen). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1228 f.
Web links
- Family table from Gabriel Bucelin
- Family story of Andreas
- Museum Überlingen: Reichlin-von-Meldegg room
Individual evidence
- ^ Gundolf Keil: Reichlin [...]. 2005, p. 1228.
- ↑ http://www.genealogy.net/privat/schifferdecker/reichlin.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reichlin von Meldegg, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reichlin, Andreas the Elder; Andreas of Überlingen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Doctor and pharmacist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1402 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1477 |
| Place of death | Salem Monastery |