Angelo Sala

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Angelo Sala

Angelo Sala (also Angelus Sala ; born March 21, 1576 in Vicenza , † October 2, 1637 in Bützow ) was an Italian doctor and chemist .

Life

Sala was the son of the nutcase Bernardino Sala. Probably in Venice he first learned the profession of pharmacist. His career led him as a doctor without academic studies to Dresden (1602), Sondrio (1604), Nuremberg (1606), Frauenfeld (1607) and Geneva (1609). From 1607 to 1609 he was a city doctor in Winterthur . During this time he wrote his first writings on the new “chemical” medicine and the analysis of vitriol , which he dedicated to the banker Bonaventura von Bodeck . In 1610 Sala accompanied Count Johann von Nassau as a field doctor. Between 1612 and 1617 he worked in the Hague . He was then appointed as personal physician to Count Anton Günther von Oldenburg . This also appointed Sala to be the overseer for pharmacies in the state of Oldenburg.

In 1620 Sala went to Hamburg as a chymiater . In June of that year he became the personal physician of Count Ernst von Holstein-Schaumburg . In 1622 Landgrave Moritz the Scholar had Sala called to Kassel. Moritz could also have recommended Sala to his son-in-law, Duke Johann Albrecht II of Mecklenburg-Güstrow , whom Sala had served as personal physician since 1623. In any case, in 1625 he called Sala permanently to Güstrow, where Sala lived on the Schloss Freiheit.

At the end of May 1628 Sala accompanied Duke Johann Albrecht II, who had been expelled from Wallenstein , into exile in Bernburg (Saale) in Anhalt. When, on June 26, 1628, Sala Prince Ludwig I von Anhalt-Köthen brought back Italian newspapers and a book, he was accepted into the Fruit Bringing Society at the same time as Johann Albrecht II and Otto von Preen . The prince gave Sala the company name "the soothing" and the motto "the pain". As an emblem, Sala “ the chamomile flower ” was intended. Sala's entry can be found in the Koethen company register under no.160.

Only interrupted by the ducal exile, Sala gave lectures on chemiatry at the University of Rostock . The Paracelsist Peter Lauremberg , who had already criticized Sala when they were together in Hamburg, also worked there at the same time . Lauremberg's polite inquiry was, however, answered by Sala's later son-in-law Anton Günther Billich in such a polemical way that the dispute escalated. Johann Rist was one of Sala's students in Rostock .

In the summer of 1629 Sala accompanied his duke into exile in Lübeck . There he remained as a personal physician until the Duke's death in 1636. Most recently, Sala served his young son, Duke Gustav Adolf von Mecklenburg-Güstrow, in the same position .

Sala died on October 2, 1637 at the age of 61 in Bützow after stabbing himself with a knife three days earlier. His body was buried in Güstrow Cathedral on October 20th .

family

Sala had been married three times. Maria Ennan is known as the first wife, who gave birth to a daughter Maria who was baptized on January 5, 1608 in Winterthur. She later married the Oldenburg personal physician Anton Günther Billich, who was friends with Sala. Their marriage was divorced in 1634, however, Sala's granddaughter Marie Sophie was never recognized by Billich.

Sala got his second marriage in the German Reformed Congregation in Hamburg . Here he married Cornelia de L'Hommels on April 15, 1621.

Sala entered his third marriage in Lübeck in 1628 with Katharina von Brockdorff (* 1608). The nobility, which the Sala family had probably already led in Italy, was confirmed to their descendants in the empire. Sala's great-grandson, Gerd Carl Graf von Sala, even achieved the status of imperial count in 1751 . With his son Hans Christian, however, the German family von Sala died out in 1806.

Awards and honors

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg annually awards the Angelus Sala Prize to schoolchildren in North German schools who have achieved outstanding academic achievements in chemistry in the 10th grade.

Works

Sala wrote his works in French and Italian, but they appeared, mostly translated, only in German, French and Latin editions. In them he relied on practical, experimental principles. In his later work he distanced himself from Paracelsus . Sala is considered to be the founder of sugar chemistry .

  • De variis tum Chymicorum tum Galenistarum erroribus . Winterthur 1608 (digitized version) ; Joh.Beyer, Frankfurt 1649 (digitized version)
  • Opiologia ou traicté concernant le naturel, propriétés, vraye preparation et seûr usage de l'opium, pour le soulagement de maintes maladies qui sont travaillés d'extrêmes douleurs internes . Hillebrant Iacobs, The Hague 1614 (digitized version )
  • Septem planetarum terrestrium spagirica recensio, qua perspicue declaratur ratio nominis Hermetici, analogia metallorum cum microcosmo, eorum praeparatio vera et unica, proprietates et usus medicinales . Amsterdam 1614 (digitized version)
  • Anatomia Vitrioli, in duos tractatus divisa . Fabriana, Geneva 1609 (digitized version ) , 1613 (digitized version ) , 3rd edition Leiden 1617 (digitized version )
  • Anatomia Antimonii: id est dissectio tam dogmatica quam hermetica Antimonii . Godefrid Basson, Leiden 1617 (digitized version)
  • Ternarius bezoarticorum, ou trois souverains médicaments bézoardiques . Leiden 1616 (digitized version) ; in Latin from Johann Birckner, Erfurt 1618 (digitized version )
  • Descriptio brevis antidoti pretiosi . Paul Egenolph, Marburg 1620 (digitized version) (digitized version)
  • Chrysologia, seu examen auri chymicum, in quo demonstratur auro nec inesse substantiam aliquam potabilem nec illud arte spagyrica transmutari posse in substantiam aquosam, oleosam vel salinam; et quid proprie intelligatur per aurum potabile . H. Carstens, Hamburg 1622 (digitized version)
  • De Natura, proprietatibus et usu Spiritus Vitrioli fundamentalis dissertatio: or a thorough description of what Spiritus Vitrioli actually is: How unfathomably it is scolded and rejected by nasty Medicis for a harmful medicine: and on the other hand, what excellent properties and effects it has, and how to do it should use him against many body's illnesses with great benefit . Froben, Hamburg 1625 (digitized version)
  • Processus de auro potabili novo paucisque adhuc cognito . Johann Philipp Sartorius, Strasbourg 1630 (digitized version) (digitized version)
  • Hydrelaeologia. In it, how one should distill and rectify all kinds of water, oil, and burning spirits of vegetable things, by certain chemical rules and manualia, in their best powers. Rostock, Hallervord 1633 (digitized version)
  • Essentiarum vegetabilium anatome. Inside of the most excellent uses of the vegetable essences in which Arzney ... is traded . Johan Hallervord, Rostock 1630 (digitized) , 1635 (digitized)
  • Tartarologia. This is due to the nature and properties of the tartar . Johan Hallervord, Rostock 1632 (digitized) , 1636 (digitized)
  • Saccharologia, therein, first of all, from nature, qualitative, useful use, and harmful misuse of sugar. According to this, how one can prepare a wine-like, strong drink, brandy and vinegar from the same, as well as different kinds of highly useful medicaments with it . Joh.Hallervord, Rostock 1637 (digitized version)
  • Tractatus de praeservatione et curatione Pestis . Horst, Marburg 1641 (digitized version)
  • Opera medico-chymica .

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personal data
SURNAME Sala, Angelo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sala, Angelus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doctor and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1576
PLACE OF BIRTH Vicenza
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1637
Place of death Bützow