Johannes Adelphus

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Johannes Adelphus ; called Muling , Müling or Mulichius (* in the early 1480s in Strasbourg ; † after August 6, 1523 ) was a German doctor and writer in the fields of medicine, geography, religion and history.

Life

Johannes Adelphus lived in Strasbourg from 1505 to 1514, where he was a city doctor. There he worked with the printer Johann Grüninger until he moved to Schaffhausen in 1516 to work as a city doctor. In the same year he went to Trier, after he had already dedicated a paper on the unsewn Rock Christ zu Trier to the local cathedral curator Christoph von Reineck in 1513 . In 1520 at the latest, however, he returned to Schaffhausen.

Act

Turkish Chronica: How the Turks Came Up (1516)

In addition to translating the first two medical books by Marsilius Ficinus on the extension of life (1521), Adelphus mainly turned to geographical, religious and historical writing. He wanted to make the insights of others accessible and published mainly in German. Among other things, he published a German version of Geiler's Passion , whose sayings he adopted under the title Scomata . Adelphus made a special contribution to the translation of the Enchiridion militis Christiani by Erasmus von Rotterdam (Basel 1520).

Works

Bodo Gotzkowsky gives a list of the printing tradition in: The German literature between 1450 and 1620. Author's lexicon. Vol. 1, 1991, pp. 188-245.

  • Jakob Mennel : That is the passion in the form of a court trade . Strasbourg 1514, Munich 1516 (attributed there to Geiler)
  • DK paternoster. Strasbourg 1515
  • Ludus novus. 1516
  • Turkish Chronica. Strasbourg 1516
  • Barbarossa. A true description of the life and history of Emperor Frederick I in 1520.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Adelphus, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müling, Johannes; Muling, Johannes; Mulichius, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH after August 6, 1523