Jan Černý (doctor, around 1456)

Jan Černý (Latin Jan Niger de Praga ; * around 1456 in Prague ; † October 1530 in Prostějov ) was a doctor and clergyman at the University of the Bohemian Brethren .

Life

Jan Černý studied at Charles University in Prague , where he graduated from the Baccalaureate in 1479 . He then practiced as a healer or doctor. Presumably under the influence of his younger brother Lukas of Prague , who later became the bishop of the Brethren, he also joined the Bohemian Brethren before 1490 and settled as a doctor in Litomysl around this time . From 1499 to 1513 and then again from 1519 he ran a hospital of the Brethren in Prostějov . In the intervening years he stayed in Litomysl. As a doctor he had a good reputation, among other things he was the family doctor of the Bohemian-Moravian nobleman Wilhelm II of Pernstein . In addition, he performed the duties of a clergyman. He also wrote a medical herbal book that appeared in Nuremberg in 1517 . He also wrote religious writings in which he represented the radical opinions of the Hussites and rejected wealth and secular education.

Works

• Spis o nemocech morních, kterak se mají lidé chovati před tím i po tom času , 1496
• Knieha lékarská, kteráž slove herbář aneb zelinář , 1517, Nuremberg and 1981, Prague

literature

• G. Gellner: Jan Černý a jiní lékaři čeští do konce doby jagellonské . Prague 1934
• M. Bohatcová: About the first printing of a Czech herb book . In: Gutenberg Yearbook 1981