Johannes Daniel Mylius

Johannes Daniel Mylius or Johann Daniel Mylius (* May 1585 in Gemünden (Wohra) ; † after 1631) was a German theologian, doctor, alchemist ( iatrochemist ) and musician.

Astrological symbols from Opus medico-chymicum 1618

Life

Mylius, baptized on May 24, 1585, was the son of a pastor and the family owned the fulling mill in Wetter near Marburg. From 1596 he studied at the pedagogy in Marburg and then was a publishing editor (corrector) and private tutor in Frankfurt am Main. In 1612 he studied chemistry in Gießen and then medicine in Marburg with Heinrich Petraeus with the permission of Landgrave Moritz der Scholar ( licentiate in 1616). After that he was again a publisher's editor in Frankfurt and began to publish his own medical-pharmaceutical-alchemical writings (Opus medico-chymicum , 1618 to 1630, Antidotarium medico-chymicum reformatum 1620, Philosophia reformata 1622, Anatomia Auri 1628, Pharmacopoea Spagyrica 1628). He also played the lute in the Protestant Barefoot Church in Frankfurt. In 1622/23 he was in Kassel with Landgrave Moritz, for whom he carried out alchemical experiments, but apparently there was no permanent connection with the Landgrave. Due to an alchemical script that he dedicated to the winter king Friedrich V (Palatinate) , he had to leave Frankfurt for some time. He received his doctorate in medicine at an advanced age in 1625 (where exactly is not known). In 1628 he became the personal physician of the Catholic Archbishop of Trier. There is no news of him after 1632.

In his extensive three-volume opus medico-chymicum, the second volume deals with iatrochemistry . He copied Andreas Libavius and his Alchymia (1597) over long distances . There are also detailed images of chemical devices such as stills and ovens, even on an industrial scale. In addition, however, he also incorporates what he had learned from Johannes Hartmann , a professor of iatrochemistry in Marburg (and from 1621 in Kassel), who was also his brother-in-law. His Philosophia reformata from 1622 contains allegorical alchemical symbols (but takes much from a book De arte Chymica from 1572).

He also wrote a theological book (Christian Reformed Theologia 1621, with the aim of uniting Calvinists and Lutherans) and published a collection of lute pieces ( Thesaurus gratiarum. Frankfurt am Main 1622) in French tablature .

literature

Oliver Humberg: Johannes Daniel Mylius, doctor, musician and alchemist from Wetter in Hessen. Self-published 2012, ISBN 3938657049 .
Ulrich Neumann: Mylius, Johannes Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 667 f. ( Digitized version ).
Killy literary dictionary. Volume 8, p. 477 f.

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Remarks

↑ See for example Adalbert Quadt : Lute Music from the Renaissance. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1 ff. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1967 ff .; 4th edition, ibid. 1968, Volume 2, p. 16 ( Ballet ) and 65.

personal data
SURNAME	Mylius, Johannes Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mylius, Johann Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian, musician and alchemist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1585
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gemünden (Wohra)
DATE OF DEATH	after 1631

[1] See for example Adalbert Quadt : Lute Music from the Renaissance. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1 ff. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1967 ff .; 4th edition, ibid. 1968, Volume 2, p. 16 ( Ballet ) and 65.