Georg Pictorius

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Georg Pictorius in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia , 1588

Georg Pictorius or Georgius Pictorius or Pictorius Villingensis , latinized from Georg Maler (* around 1500 in Villingen , † 1569 in Bärenthal ), was a German doctor and author of the Renaissance .

Life

Georg Maler was the son of the butcher Michael Maler, first attended a Franciscan monastery school and then studied philosophy and liberal arts at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , where he latinized his surname Maler to Pictorius . In 1529 he was a teacher at the Freiburg Latin School, which he also headed a little later. He then studied medicine and obtained his doctorate in 1535. From 1540, Pictorius worked in Ensisheim as a medical officer for the Upper Austrian government and as a court doctor . After he had already submitted his first philosophical writings in Freiburg, he wrote numerous other writings, especially in Ensisheim. One of the most important of his around 50 works is the Badenfahrt booklet ( Baderbüchlin ) from 1560, in which he describes 38 baths. He condemned witches in his book on sorcery: if witches did not burn, the number of these furies would increase immensely that no one would be safe. His gynecological work Frauenzimmer provides information on questions of cosmetics and odor removal as well as on epilation in the area of ​​the female breast.

Selected publications

  • (Ed. With Scholien ): Marbodei Galli poetae vetustissimi de lapidibus preciosis enchiridion . Wechelus, Paris 1531 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
    • (with Scholien the editors Allard von Amsterdam and Pictorius Villingensis) Marbodaei Galli Caenomanensis De gemmarum lapidumque pretiosorum formis, naturis atque viribus . Hero Alopecius, Cologne 1539 ( Google Books )
  • Theologia Mythologica Ex Doctiss. uirorum promptuario, Pictorij Vill laboratories. in compendium congesta . Johannes Emmeus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1532 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
  • Lasz Büchlin. Clarer report vein-letting should not be kept in such a small break as it is commonly coated in all places, and some people hereby break off their own lives. ... With the attachment when and how to write . Jacob Kündig, Basel 1555 ( digitized version of the Basel University Library)
  • Raiß Büchlin. How to keep order, someone wants to raise in the vast and onerfarne country of Strasbourg 1557 ( digital copy of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
    • Tear booklet . Frankfurt am Main 1566
  • Baderbuchlin. Gantz briefly report on all kinds of simple and 38th composed mineral teütsches lands wild baths . o. O. 1560 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
    • Badenfart booklet. Gantz brief report of all kinds of simple and eight and thirty composed mineral teutsches lands wild baths . 3rd edition Frankfurt am Main undated [around 1564] ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library, Munich)
  • Gynaikonitis Or: Frauwenzimmer, from this the pregnant women may learn how to hold themselves before, in, and after the birth . Peter Schmidt, Frankfurt am Main 1569
    • Frauwenzimmer. A useful little book in which pregnant women can learn how to hold themselves before, during and after the birth . Frankfurt am Main, 1578 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich)
    • Frauwenzimmer. A useful booklet, from which pregnant women may learn how to hold themselves before, in, and after the birth . Kopffius, Frankfurt am Main, 1593 ( digital copy from the Bavarian State Library, Munich)

literature

  • Tillmann Wertz: Georgius Pictorius (1500-1569 / 73). Life and work of an Upper Rhine doctor and humanist. Palatina Verlag, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-932608-35-6 .
  • Ernst Scheffelt: The doctor Georgius Pictorius (1500–1569) from Villingen. In: Badische Heimat. Issue 1/1959.
  • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim : De occulta Philosophia. Fourth book.
  • Johann Scheible: Of the genres of ceremonial magic (Goetie). In the monastery. 1846, compilation, 1845-1849.
  • Ernst Georg Kurz: Georgius Pictorius von Villingen, a doctor of the 16th century and his science. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Freiburg and Leipzig 1895.
  • Udo Becker (Ed.): D. Georgius Pictorius, Badenfahrtbüchlein. How and where to bathe properly. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980, ISBN 3-451-18932-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Pictorius on leo-bw
  2. ^ HC Erik Midelfort: Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684: The Social and Intellectual Foundations. 1972, ISBN 0-8047-0805-3 , p. 59.
  3. ↑ Tilmann Walter: Unchastity and the work of love: Discourses on sexuality at the beginning of modern times in Germany. 1998, ISBN 3-11-016085-4 , p. 372.
  4. ↑ 1490-1544.
personal data
SURNAME Pictorius, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georg painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Renaissance author, doctor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Villingen
DATE OF DEATH 1569
Place of death Bärenthal