Bernhard von Gordon

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Bernhard von Gordon (French Bernard de Gordon or Bernard de Gourdon , Latin Bernardus de Gordonio or Bernardus Gordonius , incorrectly Gordianus ; * probably around 1258 in Gordon ( Rouergue ); † around 1318 ) was a clergyman and doctor and from around 1284 to 1308 a professor of the Medical Faculty of the University of Montpellier . One of his friends was the doctor Lanfrank from Milan .

In July 1299 (as Demaitre p. 46f. Proves), Bernhard von Gordon , who at that time was in Montpellier and also by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales, wrote the therapeutic text De decem ingeniis seu indicationibus curandorum morborum . Furthermore, the works De conservatione vitae humanae a die nativitatis usque ad ultimam horam mortis tractatus , Affectus praeter naturam curandi methodus , Regimen acutarum aegritudinum , De prognosticis , Tractatus de urinis and Pharmacorum omnium quae in communi sunt practicantium are ascribed to him.

His most important work and also the German-language professional prose, especially on the subject of leprosy , was the Lilium medicinae ("Lily of Medicine") completed in Montpellier in 1303 , printed in Naples in 1480, Lyon in 1491 and Venice in 1494. It is described in seven books with four each Treatises include plague, tuberculosis, scabies, epilepsy, sacerignis, anthrax, eye trippers and leprosy.

Fonts

  • De regimine acutorum morborum, 1294
  • Liber pronosticorum / Tractatus de crisi et de diebus creticis, 1295
  • Liber de conservatione vitae humanae, 1308
  • Lilium medicinae (1303), prints: Italy 1479 a. ö. ( digitized version )
  • Tractatus de tyriaca

Text editions and translations

  • B. Gordonii omnium aegritudinem à vertice ad calcem opus praeclariss., Quod Lilium medicinae appellatur [...]. Paris (apud Poncetum le preux) 1542.
  • Hans Carlowitz: The leprosy section from Bernhard von Gordon's 'Lilium medicinae' in a medieval German translation. Medical dissertation Leipzig 1913.
  • Alberto Alonso Guardo (ed.): Los pronósticos médicos en la medicina medieval: El Tractatus de crisi et de diebus creticis de Bernardo de Gordonio. Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid 2003, ISBN 84-8448-233-2 (critical edition with Spanish translation)
  • Liligen the Erczney. Translation by the doctor or medical student Jodocus of Prague, around 1400.

literature

  • Luke E. Demaitre: Doctor Bernard de Gordon. Professor and Practitioner . University of Toronto, Toronto 1980, ISBN 0-88844-051-0
  • Alberto Alonso Guardo: El Lilium medicine y el Tractatus de crisi et de diebus creticis de Bernardo de Gordonio. Estudio comparativo . In: Noua et uetera. Nuevos horizontes de la Filología latina. Volume 1. Sociedad de Estudios Latinos, Madrid 2002, pp. 435-443.
  • Luke Demaitre: Bernard de Gordon et son influence sur la pensée médicale aux XIVe et XVe siècles. In: L'Université de Montpellier et son rayonnement (XIIIe-XVe siècles). Actes du Colloque international de Montpellier III (17-19 May 2001). Brepols, Turnhout 2004, pp. 103-131.
  • Gundolf Keil : Bernhard von Gordon. In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition. Volume 1: 'A solis ortus cardine' - Colmar Dominican chronicler. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, ISBN 3-11-007264-5 , Sp. 766.
  • Gundolf Keil: Bernhard von Gordon. In: Werner E. Gerabek et al. (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 169.
  • Karl Sudhoff : On the writing of Bernhard von Gordon and their chronological sequence. A manuscript study. In: Archives for the History of Medicine. Volume 10, 1917, pp. 162-188.
  • Stefanie Zaun: 'El paciente ymagina enel fisico que es poderoso delo curar' - Imaginación and fantasía in the works Lilio de medicina and Libro de las Pronósticas by Bernardus Gordonius. In: Thomas Dewender, Thomas Welt (ed.): Imagination - Fiction - Creation: The culturally creating capacity of the imagination. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2003, pp. 195–211.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Klamroth: Lanfranks 'Kleine Chirurgie' in modern German translation. Medical dissertation, Würzburg 1978 (commissioned by Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg), p. 1.
  2. ^ Julius Leopold Pagel : About the Theriac, based on a previously unprinted work by Bernhard von Gordon. In: Pharmaceutische Post 27, 1894, pp. 205 f., 220-224, 235-237 and 257-262.
  3. ^ Gundolf Keil: Jodocus of Prague. In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition. Volume 4: Hildegard von Hürnheim - Koburger, Heinrich. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1983, ISBN 3-11-007264-5 , Sp. 529 f.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Wegner: Jodokus von Prag. 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. 698.
personal data
SURNAME Bernhard von Gordon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernard de Gordon; Bernardus de Gordonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French human medicine professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montpellier
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: around 1258
PLACE OF BIRTH Gourdon (Lot) (Rouergue)
DATE OF DEATH around 1318