Bruno Seidel

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Bruno Seidel

Bruno Seidel (also: Seidelius ; * around 1530 in Querfurt ; † 1591 in Erfurt ) was a German medic, proverb collector and neo-Latin poet.

Life

Seidel studied from 1546 at the University of Wittenberg , where Johannes Marcellus and Philipp Melanchthon were his teachers. He then went on an educational trip through Germany, visited Italy and received his doctorate in medicine under Gabriele Falloppio in Padua, he then took a position as a doctor in Arnstadt and in 1566 went to the University of Erfurt as a professor of physics , where he especially Rudolf Goclenius the Elder influenced.

As a poet, he processed his experiences and wrote, among other things, a Carmina on Martin Luther and Melanchthon from his Wittenberg experience , as well as an epicedion on Marcellus. Later he distinguished himself primarily as a literary collector of proverbs, which he obtained from Schwank and folk books of the 16th century. He enriched this with farmers and weather rules. As a doctor he had developed into an opponent of Paracelsus . He also wrote something in this area about urination, drunkenness and incurable diseases at the time.

Fonts (selection)

  • Poetam libri septem, Basel 1555
  • Sententiae proverbiales, 1568, and under the title Paroemiae ethicae1589 Frankfurt am Main
  • De usitato urinarum ..., judicio, 1562
  • De ulceribus, 1577
  • De ebrietate libri tres, Hanau 1594
  • Liber morbum incurabilium, 1593, Leiden 1662

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personal data
SURNAME Seidel, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidelius, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, proverb collector and neo-Latin poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Querfurt
DATE OF DEATH 1591
Place of death Erfurt