Michael Schüppach
Michael Schüppach (baptized on June 26, 1707 in Biglen ; † March 2, 1781 in Langnau im Emmental ), known as Michel or Micheli Schüppach and also "Schärer Micheli" , was a Swiss surgeon and physician known beyond national borders as a "miracle doctor" , Pharmacist and spa doctor.
His activity was in the tradition of the surgeons called " Bader " or "Schärer", whose healing skills were passed on as part of a craft teaching and in the 18th century was still on par with academic medicine in diagnosis and healing success. In 1747 he was appointed "Art Experienced Medicinae et Chirurgiae Practico" by the Surgical Society of My Gracious Lords and Superiors of the City of Bern (the medical association).
Schüppach was born on the Hinter-Habchegg farm near Biglen . After his apprenticeship, during which he spent two years with the surgeon Daniel Fuhrer in Wachseldorn , at the age of twenty he took over an existing practice in the "Bären" inn in Langnau in the Emmental and gradually made this village a real place of pilgrimage for the sick and the curious by looking at their urine in a vial, he diagnosed the cause of their ailments (see uroscopy ) and gave them a suitable remedy from his extensive pharmacy .
In 1739 Schüppach was able to build a new spa house on Bergstrasse and finally settled on the Dorfberg in 1758, where, in addition to his actual medical work, he received numerous illustrious guests. a. Johann Caspar Lavater on April 17, 1777 and Duke Karl August von Weimar with Goethe on October 17, 1779.
literature
- Urs Boschung : Schüppach, Michael. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Wilhelm Fetscherin-Lichtenhahn: Michael Schüppach and his time. A contribution to the cultural history of the previous century . Bern 1882.
- Hartmann Rordorf: Ordination books and the manual by Michael Schüppach, surgeon from Langnau (1707–1781) . Buchdruckerei zur Alten Universität, Zurich 1934, ( Pharmaceutica Acta Helvetiae No. 5, 1934, ISSN 0031-6865 ).
- Marta Meyer-Salzmann : Michel Schüppach. 1707-1781. A highlight of the art of healing . Haupt, Bern 1981, ISBN 3-258-02974-1 , ( Berner Heimatbücher 126).
- Rudolf Zbinden, Max Pfister: Langnau - heart of the Upper Emmental . 2nd improved edition. Haupt, Bern 1977, ISBN 3-258-02563-0 , ( Berner Heimatbücher 89), p. 15f.
- Grete de Francesco : The Power of the Charlatan . Basel: Benno Schwabe, 1937, p. 170ff.
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| SURNAME | Schüppach, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schüppach, Michel; Schüppach, Micheli; Schearer Micheli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss surgeon, doctor, pharmacist and spa doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized June 26, 1707 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biglen , Canton of Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1781 |
| Place of death | Langnau in the Emmental |