Johann Michael Bernhold

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Johann Michael Bernhold (born June 5, 1735 in Creglingen ; † January 12, 1797 in Uffenheim ) was a German physician and philologist .

Life

Johann Michael Bernhold was a son of the 2nd deacon of Creglingen, Wolfgang Ludwig Bernhold, and his wife Anna Elisabetha, geb. Werner. He studied medicine at the universities in Halle and Jena and received his doctorate in philosophy and medicine. In 1760 he became a physician in Mainbernheim and from 1770 worked as a physician in Creglingen and Uffenheim. Bernhold was first margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach and later Royal Prussian court advisor.

As a philologist, he is best known for his first modern Apicius new edition of De re coquinaria , the oldest cookbook of Roman antiquity , published in 1787 under the title De opsoniis et condimentis sive arte coquinaria . The edition of the Latin text for this edition was edited by the Nuremberg Vice-Rector of the St. Sebald School and philologist Andreas Götz (1698–1780).

On February 6, 1781 he was given the academic surname Claudius Agaternus under the matriculation number. 850 admitted to the Leopoldina as a member and later also elected as its adjunct.

Works

  • Caelii Apicii de opsoniis et condimentis, sive arte coquinaria libri X cum lectionibus variis atque indice . Knenlein, Marktbreit 1787 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Werner P. Binder: Roasted flamingo à la Apicius. Uffenheim's city physician JM Bernhold and the oldest cookbook in the world . In: Official Journal of the Neustadt district adAisch-Bad Windsheim, 18, 20/12 of November 3, 2012, p. 3 ( PDF )
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 166 ( archive.org ).
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition, Volume 1, Saur, Munich 2005, p. 590 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 234 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Bernhold, Johann Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Claudius Agaternus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Creglingen
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1797
Place of death Uffenheim