Girolamo Mercuriale

Title page of Artis gymnasticae apud antiquos celeberrimae, nostris temporis ignoratae, libri sex

De morbis muliebribus

Girolamo Mercuriale ( Latinized Hieronymus Mercurialis ; born September 30, 1530 in Forlì ; November 13, 1606 ibid) was an Italian doctor.

Life

Girolamo Mercuriale studied medicine and philosophy in Bologna and Padua , then followed Cardinal Alexander Farnese to Rome, where he went to university to teach there. From 1569 to 1587 he taught as a professor in Padua. In 1573 he was called to Vienna to treat Emperor Maximilian II . As an extraordinary reward, he was raised to the nobility for this. In 1587 he moved to the University of Bologna as a professor. Finally, Ferdinand I , Grand Duke of Tuscany, brought him to the University of Pisa for a record salary as personal physician and professor . In 1605 he retired to his hometown Forlì .

With his De arte gymnastica he created a work that was reprinted many times and which already gained him great international recognition during his lifetime. Although he mainly referred to the ancient models and not to the physical exercises of his time, through the medical-therapeutic application of his principles at the imperial court, the work received attention to the present day.

Mercuriale dealt with both practical and literary work on infant care and paediatrics , otology and ophthalmology , dermatology and infectious diseases . In 1576 Mercuriale fought the plague in Venice.

Works

Artis gymnasticae apud antiquos celeberrimae, nostris temporis ignoratae, libri sex . Venice, 1569
De morbis cutaneis, et omnibus corporis humani excrementis tractatus locupletissimi ... , Venice, 1572
De pestilentia , Venice, 1577
De morbis puerorum tractatus locupletissimi ... , Venice, 1583
De venenis, et morbis venenosis tractatus locupletissimi ... , Venice, 1584
De morbis muliebribus libri , Venice, 1587
De venenis, et morbis venenosis tractatus locupletissimi , Venice, 1588
De morbis puerorum tractatus locupletissimi , Venice, 1588
Variarum lectionum, in medicinae scriptoribus & aliis, libri sex , 1598

Editions and translations

Libri VI de re gymnastica veterum. Venice 1569.
Concetta Pennuto, Vivian Nutton (eds.): Girolamo Mercuriale: De arte gymnastica. Olschki, Florenz 2008, ISBN 978-88-222-5804-5 (critical edition with English translation).

literature

Richard J. Durling: Girolamo Mercuriale's De modo studendi. Osiris, 1990. PMID 11612688
Fritz Roderich Wendt: The idea of physical education in the Italian Renaissance. A critical contribution to the understanding of the work "De Arte Gymnastica" by Hieronymus Mercurialis (1530–1606). Triltsch, Würzburg-Aumühle 1940 (Leipzig, Phil. Diss., 1940)
Markwart Michler : From the history of movement therapy. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 24, 2005, pp. 195-221; here: p. 207 f.
Daniel Schäfer: Mercuriale, Gerolamo. 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. 972.

Individual evidence

↑ see McInstosh, Peter. Hieronymus Mercurialis 'De Arte Gymnastica'. Classification and dogma of physical education in the 16th century. In: Arnd Krüger , John McClelland (Ed.): The Beginnings of Modern Sports in the Renaissance , London: Arena Publ. 1984.
^ Arnd Krüger: History of movement therapy, in: Preventive medicine . Heidelberg: Springer Loseblatt Collection 1999, 07.06, 1 - 22.
↑ René Raggenbass: Girolamo Mercuriale , In: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung München p. 249, 2nd edition 2001 pp. 216 + 217, 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 225. Medical glossary 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mercuriale, Girolamo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mercuriale, Gerolamo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 30, 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH	Forlì
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 1606
Place of death	Forlì

[1] see McInstosh, Peter. Hieronymus Mercurialis 'De Arte Gymnastica'. Classification and dogma of physical education in the 16th century. In: Arnd Krüger , John McClelland (Ed.): The Beginnings of Modern Sports in the Renaissance , London: Arena Publ. 1984.

[2] Arnd Krüger: History of movement therapy, in: Preventive medicine . Heidelberg: Springer Loseblatt Collection 1999, 07.06, 1 - 22.

[3] René Raggenbass: Girolamo Mercuriale , In: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung München p. 249, 2nd edition 2001 pp. 216 + 217, 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 225. Medical glossary 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .