Joachim Telle

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Joachim Telle (born July 31, 1939 in Aschersleben ; † December 12, 2013 in Heidelberg ) was a German old Germanist , philologist and science historian . Telle has written and edited numerous works on the history of alchemy and on the writings of Paracelsus . He was most recently honorary professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg (Breisgau) since 2000.

After graduating from high school, Telle fled the GDR via Berlin to the Federal Republic of Germany. He then studied German, philosophy, Slavic and history at the University of Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in ancient German studies under Gerhard Eis in 1972 with a thesis on Petrus Hispanus . He then worked at the German Department of Heidelberg University.

Telle wrote numerous articles on the history of alchemy, medicine, pharmacy, astrology and astronomy, especially relevant articles about alchemists in the author's lexicon and lexicon of the Middle Ages . Together with the Heidelberg Germanist Wilhelm Kühlmann , he published the extensive, multi-volume Corpus Paracelsisticum .

Publications (selection)

  • Finds on empirical-mantic prognosis in medical prose of the late Middle Ages. In: Sudhoff's archive . Vol. 52, No. 2, 1968, pp. 130-141, JSTOR 20775660 .
  • Old German oak treatises from medical manuscripts. Contributions to pharmaceutical literature in the late Middle Ages. In: Centaurus. Volume 13, 1968, pp. 37-61.
  • Famous recipe authors. In: Medical monthly. Volume 23, 1969, pp. 117-121.
  • 'Tristants Wasser' and 'Morolfs Wein'. For the use of personal names in medieval technical terms of compound medicinal products. In: Contributions to name research. New Series, Volume 6, 1971, pp. 69-78.
  • Petrus Hispanus in the old German medical literature. Studies and texts with special consideration of the 'Thesaurus pauperum'. Philosophical dissertation Heidelberg 1972
  • Petrus Hispanus. In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . Volume 7: "Upper German Servatius" - Reuchart of Salzburg. 2nd, completely revised edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1989, ISBN 3-11-011582-4 , Sp. 504-511.
  • Sol and Luna. Literary and alchemical history studies on an old German pictorial poem. (= Writings on the history of science. Volume 2). Pressler, Hürtgenwald 1980, ISBN 3-87646-046-8 .
  • To the old German monograph on sage aquavite. In: “gelêrter der arzeniê, ouch apotêker”. Contributions to the history of science. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Willem Frans Daems . Edited by Gundolf Keil , Horst Wellm Verlag, Pattensen / Hanover 1982 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 24), ISBN 3-921456-35-5 , pp. 479-510.
  • as editor: Pharmacy and the common man. Family medicine and pharmacy in German writings of the early modern period. (Exhibition of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel in the hall of the Zeughaus from August 23, 1982 to March 1983) (= exhibition catalogs of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek. 36). Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 1982, ISBN 3-88373-032-7 (2nd, improved edition with changed subtitle: House medicine and pharmacy of the early modern era. Museum Heidelberg VCH - Acta Humaniora, Weinheim an der Bergstrasse et al. 1988, ISBN 3-527-17817-1 ).
  • Aristotle to Alexander on the philosophical stone. The alchemical teachings of the pseudo-Aristotelian 'Secretum secretorum' in a German translation of verse from the 15th century. In: Josef Domes, Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard Dietrich Haage, Christoph Weißer, Volker Zimmermann (eds.): Light of nature. Medicine in specialist literature and poetry. Festschrift for Gundolf Keil on the occasion of his 60th birthday (= Göppingen work on German studies. No. 585). Kümmerle, Göppingen 1994, ISBN 3-87452-829-4 , pp. 455-483.
  • as editor with Wilhelm Kühlmann: The early Paracelsism. 3 (in 4) volumes. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2001-2013, (Part 1, 2001; Part 2, 2004; Part 3, Vol. 1 and 2, 2013).
  • Book signets and alchemy in the XVI. and XVII. Century. Studies on early modern symbol art. Pressler, Hürtgenwald 2004, ISBN 3-87646-102-2 .
  • as editor: Paracelsus in the poem. Theophrastus von Hohenheim in the poetry of the 16th to the 21st century. A multilingual anthology. Pressler, Hürtgenwald 2008, ISBN 978-3-87646-108-3 .

literature

  • Wilhelm Kühlmann, Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke (Ed.): Iliaster. Literature and Natural History in the Early Modern Era. Celebration for Joachim Telle on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Manutius, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-925678-87-5 .
  • Heart-shaped world: Germanist Joachim Telle dies. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 27, 2013.
  • Laura Balbiani, Kathrin Pfister (eds.): Minera discipulorum. Forays into the specialist literature of the early modern period. Commemorative letter for Joachim Telle. Mattes, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86809-089-5 .
  • Didier Kahn : Joachim Telle (1939–2013). In: Ambix. ISSN  0002-6980 , Vol. 61, 2014, pp. 187-193, doi : 10.1179 / 0002698014Z.00000000052 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Telle: Petrus Hispanus in the old German medical literature: investigations and texts with special consideration of the 'Thesaurus pauperum'. Phil. Diss. Heidelberg 1972.
  2. ↑ Collaborator of Modern German Literature Studies. In: German Department (Heidelberg University website).
personal data
SURNAME Telle, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German old Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschersleben
DATE OF DEATH December 12th 2013
Place of death Heidelberg