Anselmus de Boodt
Anselmus de Boodt , Latinized Boëtius or Boetius , (* 1550 in Bruges ; † June 21, 1632 there ) was a Flemish scholar (chemist, doctor, botanist and mineralogist ). He published the first book in which minerals were systematically described.
De Boodt came from a wealthy Catholic patrician family in Bruges. He studied law and canon law in Leuven and medicine in Heidelberg (with Thomas Erestus ) and Padua , where he was awarded a Dr. med. received his doctorate . From 1580 to 1583 he was a council pensioner in Bruges and involved in the financial management of the city. In 1583 he became a doctor with the Prague burgrave Wilhelm von Rosenberg and in 1584 a canon at the Sint-Donaaskathedraal in Bruges (at the instigation of Emperor Rudolf II), which he stayed until 1595 (without being in Bruges - he lived in Prague). In 1604 he became Rudolf II's personal physician in Prague as successor to Rembert Dodoens , but returned to Bruges in 1612, where he was a pensioner until his death.
He practiced less as a doctor in Prague, but was a member of the circle of alchemists around Rudolf II and managed his gemstone collection and devoted himself to his studies. He was friends with Thaddaeus Hagecius in Prague .
In his main work Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia (1609) he described 600 minerals and mentions 233 others. He also gave indications of their use as jewelry or medicine, their economic value and how to work (cut) them. He also introduced a hardness scale. He assumed the existence of atoms and turned against alchemy and followers of Paracelsus .
In 1640 his book of herbs appeared posthumously (Florum herbarum ac fructuum selectiorum icones et vires, pleraeque hactenus ignotae).
literature
- Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists. Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-8171-1055-3
- JE Heller: Anselmus Boetius de Boodt as a scientist and natural philosopher. Archeion, Vol. 15, 1933, pp. 348-368
- JE Heller: Sources and studies on the history of the natural sciences and medicine 8. (1942), 1–125.
- Marie-Christiane De Boodt-Maselis: Anselmus Boetius de Boodt (1550-1632). Brugs humanist to the court of Austria. In: Bulletin - Cercle Benelux d'histoire de la pharmacie. Volume 105, 2003, pp. 22-25
- G. Dewalque: Biographie nationale de Belgique . IV, 814-816.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boodt, Anselmus de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boetius; Boetius de Boodt, Anselmus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian scholar, doctor, chemist and mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1550 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruges |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1632 |
| Place of death | Bruges |