Michael Puff

Michael Puff , also called Michael Schrick after his hometown, (* around 1400 in Vienna or in the Lower Austrian village of Schrick ; † in early 1473 in Vienna; buried on February 12, 1473 in St. Stephen's Cathedral ), was an Austrian doctor and dean of the university's medical faculty Vienna . The little book of the burnt-out waters is ascribed to him.

Live and act

Michael Puff from Schrick enrolled in Vienna on April 14, 1417, held lectures on grammar and dialectics from 1423 to 1429, was a master of the arts at the faculty of artists , in 1431 baccalaureate and from 1433 doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna . From 1425 to 1470 he was dean of the medical faculty eleven times . He was the head of the anatomical demonstrations in the teaching sections. He was involved in the draft of the Vienna Pharmacists' Code of 1465.

Although he was considered a supporter of Emperor Friedrich , he was entrusted with the treatment of Duke Albrecht . After his death on December 2, 1463, Puff was accused of poisoning by Hans Hierszmann, the ducal "doorman", but the suspicions were insufficient to open a case against him. He died in Vienna at the beginning of 1473 and was buried on February 12 at the St. Vitus Altar in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna .

Fonts (selection)

• "Utrum actiones substantiarum materialium sint principalius formarum substantialium, quam qualitatum earundem." Melk , Stiftsbibliothek, cod. 958. Treatise on the Theriac Discussion of the Montpellier Medical School .
• “Regimen doctoris Schrick in Wyenna.” Munich, clm 7818, Bl. 107v – 109v. Treatment recommendation for a colleague with a heart condition.
• “Quodlibetum.” Heiligenkreuz , Abbey Library, cod. 331, Bl. 61r-64v, 95v-98v. Small collection of academic theses and discussions.
• “Quaedam medicamenta praescripta ad usum pauperum, ne semper ad apothecam recurrere necesse habeant.” Vyšší Brod , Abbey Library, cod. 353, p. 373. Collection of 14 short recipes sorted by indication groups.
• “Recepta contra pestem.” Munich State Library, clm 352, p. 34v; clm 441, p. 149r. Plague recipes.
• “ Booklet of the burnt out waters ” (printed from 1477) or its handwritten first version “Treatise on the virtues of burnt out waters” (completed in 1455).

literature

• Gundolf Keil : Puff von Schrick, Michael (Schrick [h] ius). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , pp. 1200-1202.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Wegner: Hierszmann, Hans. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 594.
2. ↑ Leopold Senfelder. Highlights of the literary activity of the oldest Viennese medical school. I. Michael Puff from Schrick. 1400-1473. In: Janus. Archives internationales pour l'histoire de la Médecine et pour la Géographie Médicale. 2nd year, Leiden 1897–1898, pp. 343–354.
3. ^ Helmuth Walther and Gundolf Keil: Puff, Michael from Schrick (Schrick [ius]). In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Berlin 1989, Volume 7, Col. 905-910.
4. ↑ Leopold Senfelder. Michael Puff from Schrick. In: Wiener Klinische Rundschau. 12 (1898) 334.336, 350f., 381-383, 397-399, 414f., 443-446, 460-462, 477-479, 494f.
5. ↑ Lorenz Welker: The 'Iatromathematische Corpus'. Investigations on an Alemannic astrological-medical compendium of the late Middle Ages with text edition and an appendix: Michael Puffs von Schrick treatise “From the burned out waters” in the handwritten version of the Codex Zurich, Central Library, C 102b. (Medical dissertation) Zurich 1988 (= Zürcher medizingeschichtliche Abhandlungen, New Series , 196), pp. 85–98 and 226–249.

Web links

• Works by and about Michael Puff  in the German Digital Library