Bernard Gilles Penot

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Bernard Gilles Penot (* 1519 in Guyenne ; † 1617 in Yverdon-les-Bains ) was a French alchemist and doctor.

Penot studied in Basel (doctorate in 1591) and came to alchemy through Adam von Bodenstein, succeeding Paracelsus . He is said to have lost all of his fortune in alchemical studies (he was looking for the philosopher's stone as a means of making gold and universal medicine) and finally distanced himself from alchemy, which he previously defended in various writings. Penot was at times a doctor in Frankenthal (Palatinate) , traveled a lot and had contact and corresponded with many scholars (such as Jakob Zwinger [1569–1610], Andreas Libavius ), also in England, Bohemia and Switzerland. He died impoverished in the hospital of Yverdon-les-Bains (Ifferten), where he was city doctor from 1596.

He was friends with Nicolas Barnaud .

Fonts

  • various of his writings are printed in the Theatrum Chemicum
  • Abditorum chymicorum tractatus varii, Frankfurt 1595
  • Apologia chemiae transmutatoriae, Bern 1608
  • Libellus de lapide philosophorum, Frankfurt 1594
  • Extractio mercurii ex auro
  • Canones philosophici
  • Quaestiones et responsones philosophicae
  • Dialogus de arte chemica
  • Aegidii de Vondis dialogus inter naturam et filium philosophiae
  • Vademecum Theophrasticum, Magdeburg 1607

According to Didier Kahn, the Centum quindecim curationes from 1582 attributed to Paracelsus also comes from Penot.

literature

  • Wilhelm Kühlmann, Joachim Telle (ed.): Der Frühparacelsismus, de Gruyter 2013, p. 33f
  • Ferguson Bibliotheca Chemica , Glasgow 1906, Volume 1, pp. 73ff
  • Karl Christoph Schmieder History of Alchemy , Halle 1832, p. 297
  • Eugène Olivier: Bernard Gilles Penot (Du Port), médecin et alchimiste (1519-1617), Chrysopoeia, Volume 5 (1992-1996), pp. 571-668

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schmieder, Geschichte der Alchemie, p. 297
  2. ^ Schmieder, loc. cit.
  3. ^ Didier Kahn: Alchimie et Paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (1567-1625). Genève: Droz, 2007