Galeazzo di Santa Sofia

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Galeazzo's Rhazes Commentary, 1533

Galeazzo di Santa Sofia , Latinized Galeatius, also Galeateus de Sancta Sophia, (* in Padua ; † 1427 ibid) was an Italian doctor.

Galeazzo di Santa Sofia came from a famous family of doctors in Padua, studied in Padua with a Magister medicinae in 1389 and became a professor at the University of Vienna at the end of the 14th century . In 1404 he gave the first anatomy lecture in Vienna, the university of which had just been founded in 1365 and at which medicine previously only played a subordinate role. He is said to have carried out the first sections there for teaching purposes, which were also the first north of the Alps (1404). Those who were executed were dissected. The costs (executioners and assistants, funeral and mass, beer, wine and meals) were paid for by students and other spectators. He also conducted botanical excursions for medicinal herbs in the vicinity of Vienna. From 1407 he was back in Padua, where he died of the plague in 1427.

He wrote about Simplicia (Onomasticon de simplicibus, only handwritten), the plague, soft chancre , fever (Venice 1514, Lyon 1517) and seasickness, as well as a commentary on Rhazes (Hagenau 1533), probably written with his brother Bartolomeo and his Uncle Marsilio.

He was the personal physician of Duke Albrecht IV of Austria.

literature

  • Gundolf Keil : Galeazzo (di) Santa Sofia , in: Werner Gerabek u. a. (Ed.), Encyclopedia Medical History, Volume 1, De Gruyter 2007, p. 446
  • Hans Hugo Lauer : Galeazzo (di) Santa Sofia , in: Lexicon of the Middle Ages , Volume IV, Column 1082
  • Tiziana Pesenti: Professori e promotori di medicina nello studio di Padova dal 1405 al 1509: repertorio bio-bibliografico , Triest 1984, pp. 182–186
  • Wolfgang Regal, Michael Nanut: Vienna for Doctors - 15 walks through old medical Vienna , Springer 2007, p. IX

Web links

  • Galeazzo di Santa Sofia: Onomasticon de simplicibus . Manuscript Cgm 662 , Bavaria / Swabia, I-II: 1st half of the 15th century; III: 2nd half of the 14th century (digitized version)
  • Galeazzo di Santa Sofia: De febribus De omniu [m] modorum fluxu ventris. De omnium accide [n] tiu [m] febrium cura. In: Opus aureum ac praeclarum: de recenti memoria in luce [m] traditum: signa causas et curas febrium co [m] plectens s [e] c [un] d [u] m autorum inte [n] tio [n] es i [n] hac pagina notator [um] . Lyon 1517 (digitized version)
  • Galeazzo di Santa Sofia: Opus medicinae practicae saluberrimum, antehac nusquam impressum, Galeatij de Sancta Sophia in nonum tractatum libri Rhasis ad regem Almansorem, Hagenau 1533 (digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Regal, Michael Nanut: Vienna for Doctors - 15 walks through old medical Vienna , Springer 2007, p. IX
  2. ↑ wedge into Gerabek, Enzykl. Medizingesch., According to Lauer, Lexicon of the Middle Ages, he was in Vienna from 1398 to 1405
  3. ↑ Lynn Thorndike - Pearl Kibre , A Catalog of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy, 1963) Online version eTK 0010L, list seven manuscripts, Cgm 622 is missing. An extract of the text eTk 0010J Bodleian Library Laud Misc. 617.
  4. ↑ Attribution to Leopold Senfelder uncertain: Senfelder, Galeazzo a Sancta Sophia's alleged treatise on seasickness, Wiener Klinische Rundschau 1898, p. 674
personal data
SURNAME Galeazzo di Santa Sofia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galeatius; Galeateus de Sancta Sophia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua
DATE OF DEATH 1427
Place of death Padua