Daniel Stolz from Stolzenberg

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Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg also Daniel Stolcius von Stolcenberg (* 1600 in Kuttenberg , † lost after 1644 ) was a Bohemian astrologer , alchemist , poet and doctor .

Life

Stolcius studied in Prague and Marburg, among others. He was a student of the alchemist Michael Maier . In 1623 he met the hermetic philosopher Robert Fludd and the alchemist and inventor Cornelius Drebbel in England . In Oxford, Stolcius wrote the foreword to his Viridarium Chymicum , the “Chemischen Lustgärtlein”, which was published by Jennis in Frankfurt in 1624 and was so successful that a German translation was immediately published. In his foreword he lamented the misfortune of his Bohemian homeland.

A journey took him to Constantinople in 1632. In 1635 he visited Comenius in Leźno , at the same time he worked as a doctor in various places, including Danzig. After 1644 his traces are lost.

plant

The Viridarium Chymicum from 1624 is an alchemical emblem book that combined 107 copperplate engravings from earlier published books by Michael Maier and Johann Daniel Mylius , to which Stolcius added explanations in epigram form.

The Hortulus Hermeticus (The Hermetic Garden) is built according to the same pattern as the Chymische Lustgärtlein and was sometimes not differentiated from this because of its rarity. The book contains 160 emblems, each relating to the work of a philosopher or alchemist, with Latin verse commentaries by Stolcius.

expenditure

  • DOMA, seu informatio ad decentem habitum , Johannes Saur, Marburg 1622.
  • Trias Hexastichorum, Sive Tres Centuriae Epigrammatum, Qua Seiorum, Qua jocosorum, qua variorum , Lucas Jennis, Frankfurt, 1622.
  • Viridarium Chymicum Figuris Cupro In Cisis Adornatum, Et Poeticis picturis illustratum, ... (Chemisches Lustgärtlein), Lucas Jennis , Frankfurt, 1624.
  • Chemical pleasure garden: adorned with beautiful figures cut in copper / also illustrated and explained with poetic paintings; So that it not only refreshes eyes and mind / but at the same time ... , translated from Latin by Daniel Meisner , Lucas Jennis, Frankfurt, 1624. Digitized
  • Hortulus Hermeticus Flosculis Philosophorum Cupro Incisis Conformatus, & brevissimis versiculis explicatus, ... (The Hermetic Garden), Jennis, Frankfurt, 1627.
  • Chemical pleasure garden . In the appendix: Introduction to the alchemy of the "Chymischen Lustgärtlein" and its symbolism by Ferdinand Weinhandl , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1964, ISBN 3-534-02036-7 , (photomechanical reprint of the Frankfurt 1624 edition)

literature

  • Heike Hild: The family book of the physician, alchemist and poet Daniel Stolcius as a manuscript of the emblem book Viridarium Chymicum (1624) and as a testimony to his Peregrinatio Academica ; Dissertation Munich 1991
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann: Poet, Chymicus, Mathematicus. The studbook of the Bohemian Paracelsist Daniel Stoltzius , in: JoachimTelle (Hrsg.): Parega Paracelsica. Paracelsus in the past and present , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, pp. 275-300, ISBN 3-515-05472-3
  • Claus Priesner and Karin Figala: Alchemy. Lexicon of a Hermetic Science. Beck, Munich 1998, pp. 348-350, ISBN 3-406-44106-8

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ Karin Figala: Stolcius von Stolzenberg in: Alchemie. Lexicon of a Hermetic Science. Munich 1998, p. 348.
  2. ^ Frances Amelia Yates : The Rosicrucian Enlightenment , Routledge, 2001, p. 123.
  3. ^ Adam McLean: The Hermetic Garden of Daniel Stolcius in: The Hermetic Journal 10, Edinburgh 1980, ISSN  0141-6391 , p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Stolzenberg, Daniel Stolz from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stolcenberg, Daniel Stolcius from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian astrologer, alchemist, poet and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuttenberg
DATE OF DEATH after 1644