Johann Huser

Johannes Huser (* around 1545 in Breisgau, probably Waldkirch ; late 1600, but probably in Glogau before March 8, 1601 ) was a doctor and Paracelsist . He was editor of an early edition of Paracelsus' works and councilor of the electoral Cologne.

Life

Huser studied medicine at the University of Freiburg (1561) and Basel (1563/64). Soon afterwards he began to collect Paracelsus writings, where he was in contact with the Silesian Paracelsists Georg Marquard in Glogau and Balthasar Flöter in Sagan and in 1566 visited the Paracelsist Heinrich Wolff in Nuremberg. From 1575 at the latest he was a doctor in Glogau and was in contact with the Silesian Paracelsist and collector of Paracelsus manuscripts Johannes Scultetus Montanus , who made many of Paracelsus's writings available to him and was friends with him. Since the 1580s he was planning a work edition by Paracelsus, in which he was supported by the elector and archbishop of Cologne Ernst von Bayern . Huser was his personal physician and also councilor to the elector of Cologne. 1594 he took accompanied by the elector at the Reichstag in Regensburg in part and traveled with Ernst of Bavaria to Prague, where he alchemists within Rudolf II. , Met Hans Kaper (Carpio) and probably in the meeting of Ernst of Bavaria with Edward Kelley attended . By 1596 at the latest, the Bishop of Breslau Bonaventura Hahn was one of his patrons.

Other Paracelsists besides Montanus, who provided him with writings for the edition, were Hans Kilian in the library of Count Palatine Philipp Ludwig in Neuburg an der Donau (which he visited in 1586 and 1594), Johannes Homelius ( Pettau ), Helisäus Röslin ( Hagenau ), Lucas Bathodius ( Pfalzburg ), Melchior Wiel ( Solothurn ), Bartholomäus Scultetus ( Görlitz ), Lorenz Dehn ( Augsburg ), Johann Hiller (alchemist in Ansbach and friend of Oswald Croll) and Franz Kretschmer in Sagan (also an alchemist friend of Croll). He mentions them by name in the acknowledgment of his Paracelsus edition. Huser was in correspondence with Oswald Croll, Kilian, PL Messinus ( Cologne , Liège ), Karl Rauhenberger, Leonhard Thurneysser (Berlin), Zacharias Wechinger (Sagan), Theodor Zwinger the Elder (Basel), Count Palatine Philipp Ludwig and with a certain Brunner in Regensburg.

Huser published a work by Paracelsus published in Basel from 1589 to 1591 , which became fundamental. He had access to manuscripts that were later lost. Paracelsus autographs have not survived. After Huser's death, Surgical Works by Paracelsus were published by Zetzner in Strasbourg, which he had also tackled as editor. The edition is dedicated to the Elector and Archbishop Ernst of Bavaria. He was supported by Paul Linck.

Writings by Huser himself are not known, only a few letters and references to hermitic books in the copied excerpts from the possession of Adam Haslmayr (printed by Joachim Morsius , Nuncius Olympicus, 1626). He is one of the few who are specifically mentioned as sources in Oswald Croll's Basilica Chymica .

Fonts

As editor of Paracelsus:

• Johannes Huser (1545-ca. 1600) (ed.): Husersche Quartausgabe (medical and philosophical writings), Conrad Waldkirch, Basel, 10 volumes, 1589 to 1591
  • Vol .: 1. In this part we understand the books which originate and come from all diseases deal in genres. Conrad Waldkirch, Basel 1589 MDZ

I. Paramirium de quinque ententibus omnium morborum (p. 56). II. Another opus paramirium . III. Liber de generatione hominis (p. 360).

• Bd .: 2. This part includes the writings in which the fundamentals are indicated, on which the art of right-wing art is based, and what books it is taught, Conrad Waldkirch, Basel 1589 MDZ

I. The book of Paragranum . II. Another paragranum (p. 99). III. Chronica des land Carinthia (p. 150). IV. Defensiones and responsibilities, because of a number of denigrations of his grudges (p. 158). V. Labyrinthus medicorum errantium, in which he shows the books from which the doctor should seek and learn his art (p. 191). VI. The book of tartaro is about the origin, cause and healing of sand and stone (p. 244). VII. Epistle der Landtschektiven in Carinthia an theophrastum (p. 341).

• Bd .: 3. In this part the books of which are comprehended, which deal with the origin, cause and cure of diseases in Specie . Conrad Waldkirch, Basel 1589 MDZ

I. De viribus membrorum… samples a fragment de conservatione quatuor elementorum in homine . II. De primis tribus essentibus (p. 15). III. From the origin and healing of ... pestilentz (p. 24). IV. A little book from the pestilentz an der stertzingen (p. 109). V. The origins and causes of pestilentz (p. 124). VI. Item other three books from the pestilentz (p. 150). VII. Several collectanea de peste (p. 196). VIII. De morbis ex tartaro . XI. Theophrasti epistola ad erasmum rotodamum (p. 339). X. Erasmi Roterodami responsio (p. 340). XI. Liber de icteritiis . XII. Libri quatuordecim paragraphorum .

• Vol .: 4, In this part, as in the third, books are understood which deal with the origin, cause and cure of diseases in specie. Conrad Waldkirch, Basel 1589 MDZ

I. Of the Tartar diseases, that is, of all the families of stone and semolina or sand (p. 9). II. De morbis amentium, daz is, of the diseases that deprive man of reason (p. 38). III. De contractubris, that is, of crooked and lame limbs (p. 93). IV. Of the following diseases ... water addiction (p. 118) consumptiveness (p. 125) color addiction (p. 132) windy or colic (p. 138) blow or paralyss (p. 147) deafness (p. 155) worms (p 165) cuff (p. 173) podagra (p. 181) falling addiction (p . 190) cold sore (p . 200). V. Vom Podagra (p. 246). VI. Other two books by Podagra (p. 286). VII. From origin, cause and cure morbi caduci or epilepsia, that is the addiction that falls (p. 317). VIII. De caduco matricis (p. 365).

• Vol .: 5th Conrad Waldkirch, Basel 1589 MDZ

I. Three books on mountain diseases . II. Theorica schemata seu typi, de morbis aliquot generaliter agentes… (p. 74). III. Practicae particularis sive curationis morborum tartareoerum (p. 100). IV. Etliche consilia medica. Item regimina morborum (p. 104). V. Several fragments (p. 133). VI. His adiunximus ... (p. 320).

• Vol .: 5a. Appendix of the fifth part of the Operum Theophrasti . Conrad Waldkirch, Basel 1589 MDZ

I. Interpretation ... aphorismorum hippocratis II. Teaching of bloodletting - of schrepffen . III. De urinis, de pulsibus… IV. De modo pharmacandi…

• Vol .: 6. In this Tomo are understood such books in which several of the spagyric preparation of natural things concerning Artzney is dealt with. Item, some alchemist booklin, can be traced just by the transmutation of metals. Conrad Waldkirch, Basel 1590 MDZ

I. Archidoxis . II. De renovatione & restauratione (p. 100). III. De longa vita / teutsch (p. 115). IV. De longa vita / latine (p. 137). V. Fragmenta of the books de longa vita (p. 198). VI. De praeparationobus (p. 212). VII. The process of making the spiritum vitrioli (p. 253) VIII. De natura rerum (p. 255) De generationibus (p. 258) - de crescentibus (p. 267) - de conservationibus (p. 270) - de vita ( P. 277) - de morte (p. 281) - de resuscitatione (p. 293) - de transmutationibus (p. 300) - de separationibus (p. 313) - de signaturis (p. 329) rerum naturalium . IX. De tinctura physicorum (p. 363).

Additions: I. The puzzling book (p. 375). II. Thesaurus alchimistarum (p. 396). III. De cementis (p. 402) - de gradationibus (p. 411).

Further additions: I. The manual de lapide philosophorum (p. 421). II. Ratio extrahandi ex omnibus metallis mercurium, sulfur & crocum (p. 437).

• Vol .: 7. In this part the books are written, in which the powers, virtues and qualities of natural things, also the same dispositions concerning the art, are described. Conrad Waldkirch, Basel 1590 MDZ

I. Intimatio theophrasti, basileae publicata… II. De gradibus rerum naturalium & compositionibus remediorum… (p. 1). III. Herbarius ... (p. 61). IIII. Of natural things ... (p. 109). V. From turpentine (p. 210) - from honey (p. 222). VI. De xyloobeni (p. 233) - de curatione rupturae (p. 235) - de mumia (p. 236). VII. Scholia in macri quaedam poëmata de virtutibis herbarum (p. 237). VIII. Liber principiorum, in which snakes, toads, spiders, earthworms, crabs, etc. are traced. (P. 278). IX. De thermis (p. 296). X. A special little book by bad pfeffers (p. 327).

Fragmenta and schedulae . I. De gradibus & compositionibus (p. 345). II. Scholia in libros de gradibus (p. 357). III. Quite a few fragments (p. 390). IV. Fragmanta aliquot de r herbaria (p. 406). V. De thermis five fragment (p. 429).

• Vol .: 8, In this Tomo (which is the first among the philosophical) such books are understood, in which the Philosophia de Generationibus & Fructibus quatuor Elementorum is described. Conrad Waldkirch, Basel 1590 MDZ

II. Philosophiae ad athenienses (p. 1). II. Ex anatomico opera theophrasti (p. 48). III. Philosophiae de generationibus & fructibus quatuor elementorum (p. 54). IV. Philosophiae de generatione hominis (p. 160). V. De meteoris (p. 177). VI. Another opusculum de meteoris (p. 250). VII. Another different book meteorum (p. 278). VIII. De generatione metallorum & mineralium (p. 334).

• Vol .: 9, Diser Tomus (who is the other among the philosophical) understands such books, in which all kinds of natural and supernatural characteristics, origin, cause, essence and properties, are thoroughly and accurately described . Conrad Waldkirch, Basel 1591 MDZ

I. ... de nymphis, sylphis, pygmaeis & salamandris (p. 45) ... (p. 1). II. ... de homunculis & monstris (p. 311) ... III. Philosophia occulta (p. 329). IV. De imaginibus, that is, from allerley bildtwerck und figuren (p. 369). V. Philosophia theophrasti (p. 394). VI. On the foundations and origins of knowledge and the arts (p. 13). VII. Several fragments (p. 447).

• Vol .: 10. This part (which is the third among the Philosophical Writings) includes the excellent work called Theophrasti, Philosophia Sagax, or Astronomia Magna: Sampts many other Opusculis, and an Appendice. Conrad Waldkirch, Basel 1591 MDZ

I. Philosophia sagax or astronomia magna . II. Another short astronomical book (p. 398). III. Practica in scientiam divinationis (p. 434). IV. Another compendium, or declaration of natural astronomey (p. 468). V. Several fragments and schedulae (p. 480).

Appendix of the toe part. I. The book called azoth, or, de ligno & linea vitae . II. Archidoxeos magicae (p. 67). III. Interpretation of three magical figures ... (p. 139). IV. Prognostication ... on the 24th year (p. 190). V. Another short prognostication (p. 228). VI.

• Johannes Huser (ed.) Surgical books and writings . Lazarus Zetzner, Strasbourg 1605 MDZ 1618 MDZ

literature

• Joachim Telle : Johann Huser in his letters, in: Telle (Hrsg.), Parerga Paracelsica, Stuttgart 1992

Web links

• Huser edition of Paracelsus, University of Zurich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to Kühlmann, Telle, Frühparacelsismus, Niemeyer 2001 to 2003, De Gruyter 2013, Volume 2, p. 412ff. Volume 3, pp. 799ff, contains a letter from Huser to Ernst von Bayern from 1589 and the preface to his Paracelsus edition from 1589.