Michael Herr (medic)

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Michael Herr , also Michael Hero, (born probably at the end of the 15th century in Speyer ; died around 1550 in Strasbourg ) was a German doctor and translator. He worked as a city doctor in Strasbourg.

Life

Michael Hero as translator of the Gesuntheyt chessboards (1533)

According to Ernest Wickersheimer (1969), there is no evidence that Michael Herr was born in Kolmar and that he studied medicine in Basel and practiced there as a doctor for some time, according to Jakob Franck in the ADB in 1880 . Evidently, Mr. 1508 was enrolled as "Speyer" at the University of Heidelberg and received there in 1510 a Baccalaureus Artium . He entered the Königshofener Charterhouse and became friends with Otto Brunfels . In 1526, Herr heard a lecture from Georg Tannstetter in Vienna . He gave his transcript to Brunfels, who had it printed in Strasbourg in 1531 under the title Artificium de applicatione Astrologiae ad Medicinam . For the doctor and botanist Brunfels he completed his multi-volume herbal book Herbarum vivae icones after the author's death in 1536.

When the Reformation prevailed in Strasbourg , Herr left the monastery and went to Montpellier in 1527 to study medicine there, but soon returned and received Strasbourg citizenship in 1528 and married Elisabeth Hügin. In 1534 he became a doctor at the Strasbourg Citizens' Hospital . (He held the post of city ​​physician or city doctor in Strasbourg ). From 1547 he took part in the work on the creation of a new cathedral clock .

Mr. translated scriptures from Greek and Latin into German. His writing style was praised, but his translations were criticized because he forcibly adapted the texts of antiquity to Christian doctrine. He translated a version of Tacuinum sanitatis of Ibn Butlan titled chess Tafelen the Gesuntheyt , the figures got Hans Weiditz .

He wrote the animal book Thoroughly underricht ... all four-legged animals (Strasbourg 1546), in which he formulated wisdom for 64 animal images. The woodcuts are probably also by his friend Weiditz.

Works (selection)

  • Thorough instruction, full and detailed description of a wonderful, strange kind, nature, strength and eye creation of all four-legged animals, wild and zam . Strasbourg: Beck, 1546
    • Michael Herr's animal book . - facsimile d. Edition Strasbourg 1546. Kötzschenbroda: Bagpipe Press, 1934 Extent: 53 pp.
    • Thorough teaching . CD-ROM. Erlangen: Fischer, 2003
Translations
  • The knightly and praiseworthy Reyss of the stern and widely known knight, and country driver, Mr. Ludouico Vartomans of Bolonia . 1515, 1549
  • Chess boards of the Gesuntheyt: I. First, by keeping the six next to natural things. As the air, ... to nyesszen food and drink properly, lawful exercise, or to use the rug of the body, which means sleeping, and waking, opening or clogging of the stomach, inner desire, or affects ..., II. On the other hand , by Erkantnussz, cur, and hynleger All Kranckheyten human chance ..., III. For the third. All LXXXIIII tables were especially tackled with the rule book . spoiled by Michael Hero. 1533 (digitized version)
  • Author Johannes Huttich , editor Simon Grynaeus : The New World of Landscapes, and Insulen, unknown to all Old World writers up to this point, but recently found by the Portuguese and Hispani in the Nidergenlichen Sea: sambt the customs and uses of the peoples involved: also what good or were both finds, and brought to our land ... Translation Michael Herr. Strasbourg: Georg Ulricher, 1534 (digitized version )
  • Plutarchi of Cheronea of Good Morals twenty-one books . By d. Michael Herr ... Germanized. Strasbourg: Scots, 1535 (digitized)
  • Moral stud books of the highly famous philosopher and teacher Lucii Annei Senece : in which Leer u. Instruction we found how e. Human d. To hold virtue according to . Germanized by Michael Herr. Strasbourg, 1536; further edition: 1540.
  • The farm Lucij Columelle and Palladij : two Hocherfarner Romans, keep in all veldbaw, of grain, wine, fruits . Germanized by Michl. Men's. Strasbourg: Wendel Rihel, 1538 (digitized)
  • Author Cassianus Bassus : The veldtbaw, or the book of the veldarbeyt. Everything was described a thousand years ago by the Keyser Constantino the fourth in Greek, and interpreted by D. Michael Herren . Strasbourg: Beck, 1545 (digitized) ; other editions: 1551, 1556, 1561, 1563, 1566, 1567

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard E. Sollbach (Ed.): The new animal and pharmacopoeia of Doctor Michael Herr AD 1546. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1994, p. 16 f.
  2. ↑ Hans Huchzermeyer : The "Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt" by Michael Herr, Strasbourg 1533. Notes on the book illustrations, the meaning of music and the term chessboard. P. 2 and 5.
personal data
SURNAME Lord Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hero, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH around 1550
Place of death Strasbourg