Hermann von Heiligenhafen

Hermann von Heiligenhafen , also Hermannus de Sancto Portu (* around 1224; † after 1284; bl. 1246–1284) was a medic and compiler .

Life

Hermann studied in the first half of the 13th century at the University of Paris , the Arts and Medicine . He received his master's degree in Paris. In 1246 he came to Hamburg as a travel companion and educator for Counts Gerhard I and Johann I von Holstein (probably from Paris) . He received the benefice of the parish church of Heiligenhafen , possibly as a reward or thanks for services rendered.

For his client, Count Adolf V. von Holstein, he completed his only surviving work on March 19, 1284 in Paris, where he had moved when he was 60, a handwritten book of herbs Herbarius communis and thus the first herb book of the "Herbier commune" -Type. It is a compilation from Circa instans , supplemented by parts of the Liber diaetarum particularum by Isaac Judaeus , and the encyclopedic work of Vinzenz von Beauvais , which is based on a 15th-century copy by Konrad Sluter (or Schlüter) from Goslar in the Erlangen University Library is handed down.

literature

Wolfram Schmitt: Hermann von Heiligenhafen (de Sancto Portu). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 646 ( digitized version ).
Hans Fischer: The Latin paper manuscripts of the University Library Erlangen , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1971
Gundolf Keil : Hermann von Heilighafen. In: Lexikon des Mittelalters IV, 2166, and in: Verfasserlexikon , 2nd ed., III, Sp. 1061 f.
Wolfgang Wegner: Hermann von Heiligenhafen. In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. Edited by Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil and Wolfgang Wegner, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005 ( ISBN 3-11-015714-4 ), p. 572 f.

Individual evidence

^ Heinrich Ebel: The "Herbarius communis" of Hermannus de Sancto Portu and the "Pharmacopoeia" of Claus von Metry: Text transcriptions from the Codices Bibl. Acad. Ms. 674, Erlangen, and Pal. Germ. 215, Heidelberg. Two contributions to the knowledge of the essence of medieval folk botany. Würzburg 1940 (= texts and studies on the history of natural sciences, 1), SI – V, X and 1–45.
^ Gundolf Keil: The German Isaak Judäus reception from the 13th to the 15th century. Shaker, Aachen 2015 (= European Science Relations, Supplement 2), p. 31

personal data
SURNAME	Hermann von Heiligenhafen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hermannus de Sancto Portu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mediciners
DATE OF BIRTH	13th Century
DATE OF DEATH	13th Century

[1] Heinrich Ebel: The "Herbarius communis" of Hermannus de Sancto Portu and the "Pharmacopoeia" of Claus von Metry: Text transcriptions from the Codices Bibl. Acad. Ms. 674, Erlangen, and Pal. Germ. 215, Heidelberg. Two contributions to the knowledge of the essence of medieval folk botany. Würzburg 1940 (= texts and studies on the history of natural sciences, 1), SI – V, X and 1–45.

[2] Gundolf Keil: The German Isaak Judäus reception from the 13th to the 15th century. Shaker, Aachen 2015 (= European Science Relations, Supplement 2), p. 31