Johann Agricola (doctor)

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Johann Agricola from Gunzenhausen , other forms of name: Peurle, Beuerle, Ammonius (* 1496 in Gunzenhausen ; † March 6, 1570 in Ingolstadt ) was a German physician.

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Agricola studied in Ingolstadt in 1506 and became professor of the Greek language there after traveling for a long time. In 1528 he received his doctorate in the medical faculty, where he became professor of medicine in 1531.

Agricola was among those well-known philological doctors of the Renaissance who brought about a final gleam in ancient medicine at German universities. He published translations and commentaries on the works of ancient doctors and pushed back the scholastic tradition at the medical faculty in Ingolstadt for a few decades, paving the way for the reform of medicine in a new era.

In his work on medicinal plants, however, Agricola abandoned ancient tradition and turned to the aspiring, independent observation of nature. The first pharmaceutical dictionary of synonyms comes from him.

Works

  • Herbariae Medicinae libri duo. Basel 1539, Ingolstadt 1541;
  • Index copiosissimus simplicium Pharmacorum omnium a Dioscoride proditorum, secundum capita et lobros, ordine alphabeti, without place and without year
  • Scholia copiosa in therapeuticam methodum, id est, absolutissimam Claudii Galeni Pergameni curandi artem. / Authore Joan. Agricola. Cum praeliminari epistola De. Erasmi Rotero . - Augustae Vind: Uhlhardus, 1534. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

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SURNAME Agricola, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ammonius; Peurle, Johann; Beuerle, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1496
PLACE OF BIRTH Gunzenhausen
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1570
Place of death Ingolstadt