Hans Seyff

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Leg amputation on Emperor Friedrich III. The representation was originally in Hans Seyff's handwriting Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart Cod. Med. et phys. 2 ° 8, p. 71r.

Hans Seyff (* 1440, † after 1518) was a from Göppingen originating surgeon . He was a leading surgeon in the late Middle Ages.

Hans Seyff was probably born as a serf from Württemberg . He received his basic school education from the Canons of Oberhofen . He initially worked as a bath . By Count Ulrich V of Württemberg he was one of the three bathhouses Göppingen on April 8, 1461 belehnen . As a field doctor, he accompanied the Count in the war against the Electoral Palatinate . He was imprisoned for eleven months. Then he continued his activity as a bath. Seyff became a surgeon in 1477. From 1481 Seyff was in the service of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich . He gained a high reputation as a surgeon. He used his medical skills to obtain the lifting of serfdom for himself and his family in 1481. Travels as an operator took him to Antwerp to the court of Maximilian I.

Seyff was one of the leading operators in the empire. At the beginning of April 1493 Albrecht sent him to Linz . He should there the leg of Emperor Friedrich III. amputate. The emperor suffered from arteriosclerosis . The amputation was carried out on June 8, 1493 under the direction of Seyff. Seven doctors were involved in the operation. With the surgeon Larius von Passau, Seyff sawed off the area of ​​the leg affected by the disease. Erhard von Grecz, who came from Graz and is considered an outstanding surgeon, and the Bavarian-Austrian surgeon and textbook author Heinrich Pflaundorfer were also involved. The leg amputation is one of the most famous and best-documented surgical interventions of the entire Middle Ages. Seyff probably did not write a report about the leg amputation of Frederick III until 1508 immediately after the operation. There are also two surgical manuals with several surgical reports from him, which were written between 1482 and 1518 and also contain surgical texts by other authors. Seyff sought a professional exchange with the Moravian surgeon Friedrich von Olmütz and the Palatine personal physician Heinrich Münsinger . Drafts of wills show that he had acquired a considerable fortune in Göppingen. Three sons are testified of him.

In the history of medicine he is best known for his invasive abdominal surgery (tumor extirpation) and vascular surgery. A street in Göppingen is named after him.

The doctor Paracelsus referred to Hans Seyff in his pharmaceutical texts.

Work edition (excerpts)

  • Karl Sudhoff : Contributions to the history of surgery in the Middle Ages (= studies on the history of medicine. Vol. 11/12). Part 2. Barth, Leipzig 1918, pp. 592–616.
  • Hartmut Broszinski : The remedy glossary of Hans Suff von Göppingen. In: Centaurus. Volume 12, 1967, pp. 114-131.

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  1. ↑ Gundolf Keil: "blutken - bloedekijn". Notes on the etiology of the hyposphagma genesis in the 'Pommersfeld Silesian Eye Booklet' (1st third of the 15th century). With an overview of the ophthalmological texts of the German Middle Ages. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013, pp. 7–175, here: p. 33.
  2. ↑ Daniel Carlo Pangerl: "Item as one of the kayser Fridrichen sin foot section". The leg amputation on Emperor Friedrich III. on June 8, 1493 in Linz. In: Sudhoffs Archiv Vol. 94 (2010), pp. 195–200, here: p. 198.
  3. ^ Bernhard D. Haage: Erhard von Graz (Grecz). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Berlin et al. 2005, p. 368.
  4. ↑ Gundolf Keil: Pflaundorfer, Henry. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Berlin et al. 2005, p. 1142.
  5. ↑ Daniel Carlo Pangerl: "Item as one of the kayser Fridrichen sin foot section". The leg amputation on Emperor Friedrich III. on June 8, 1493 in Linz. In: Sudhoff's archive. Vol. 94, 2010, pp. 195-200, here: p. 195.
  6. ↑ Manfred Gröber: Kaiser Friedrich III. and master Hans Seyff. In: Exhibition catalog Kaiser Friedrich III. - Innovations of a turning point. Linz 1993, pp. 15-19, here: p. 16.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Wegner: Peter von Worms, Rhine-Franconian surgeon. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Berlin et al. 2005, p. 1129.
  8. ↑ Manfred Gröber (ed.): The surgeon manual of the master Hans Seyff von Göppingen (approx. 1440-1518). The Cod. Med. et phys. 2 ° 8 of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart. Göppingen 1998 (= Göppinger works on German studies. Volume 656); also philosophical dissertation Tübingen.
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Wegner: Friedrich von Olmütz, master. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Berlin et al. 2005, p. 441.
  10. ^ Bernhard D. Haage, Wolfgang Wegner: Seyff (Suff), Hans, von Göppingen. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Berlin et al. 2005, p. 1325.
  11. ↑ Gundolf Keil: The anatomei-term in the Paracelsus pathology. With a historical perspective on Samuel Hahnemann. In: Hartmut Boockmann, Bernd Moeller , Karl Stackmann (eds.): Life lessons and world designs in the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age. Politics - Education - Natural History - Theology. Report on colloquia of the commission to research the culture of the late Middle Ages 1983 to 1987 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen: philological-historical class. Volume III, No. 179). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-82463-7 , pp. 336-351, here: p. 347.
personal data
SURNAME Seyff, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH around 1440
DATE OF DEATH after 1518