Michael Bapst

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Michael Bapst (also: Baptist von Rochlitz ) (born August 24, 1540 in Rochlitz , † April 19, 1603 in Mohorn ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor and medical writer.

Life

Bapst came from a family in the Spanish Netherlands , his ancestors owned the Ohain Castle near Brussels in the 14th century . After his great-grandfather's murder, his sons fled to Saxony. Bapst's father settled in Rochlitz and was elected to the council there. Bapst grew up with his four siblings in a very educated family. An electoral scholarship enabled him to attend the Pforta state school . From 1564 he studied theology at the University of Leipzig . Until he took over a pastorate in Mohorn in 1571, he worked as a teacher in Rochlitz.

In 1569 he achieved the degree of baccalaureus and in 1571 he became pastor of Mohorn in Saxony . In the same year he married Marie Steinmüller; they had eleven sons and one daughter. Since 1578 they ran a successful educational institution in Mohorn, where the von Schönbergs also took their sons. As an autodidact, Bapst dealt with medical topics. In 1596 the first volume of his body and wound medicine book appeared.

The New German Biography (NDB) comments critically on his writings on popular medicine: “As a non-medical practitioner, he made a lot of gross mistakes, and he is uncritical in the selection of his sources. He himself is unlikely to have worked as a therapist. (...) his books are more important from a cultural and historical point of view than that they have any medical-scientific value. "

Works (selection)

  • Poison-hunting art and house book, in it, how to drive away all sorts of poisonous worms, also some wild animals, fish ... Artificially catch and kill sol: Beside armed Ertzneyen, who are re-emerging from Gifft and Zeehrey ... Leipzig 1591
  • The seven planets course and effect on human life . 1594
  • Wonderful body and wound Artzney book. 3 volumes Eißleben: Grosse, 1596–1597
    1. In it, besides many things worth thinking about, useful and salutary, stories, tricks, and experiments, especially of the serious ailment or falling illness and the same cura, an external report.
    2. In addition to many salutary experiments and artificial pieces, also to be found in it, including the blood of people, birds, fish, animals, worms, official, etc.
    3. Third part, in which, in addition to many thinkable, useful, and salutary things, tricks, and experiments, mainly by the hemostatic, other related things are dealt with ...
  • Pimelotheca, or Artzney book: Inside of the wonderful healing strength and usability of the Schmers, Marck, Untzlit, bacon, fat or fatness of humans, birds, fish, animals, worms, sampt many other useful experiments and tricks is tractiret and traded ... Eisleben 1599
  • Juniperetum, or juniper garden, to be located in it: how one should prepare and prepare from this noble vegetation, water, extracts, oil and salia, through the spargetic and chymistic art ... But now, after the author's blessed death, overlooked and printed, through Ioachimum Tanckium. H. Grossen, Eisleben 1605

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SURNAME Bapst, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Babst, Michael; Bapst von Rochlitz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor; medical folk writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochlitz
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1603
Place of death Mohorn