Freak of Hoheneiche
The freak of Hoheneiche even freak of Hoheneich is from the year 1577 Renaissance - artist Dietmar Merluam created woodcut , which a malformed child shows and in the history of medicine was received and medical literature. The 350 × 270 mm work of art is located in the Zurich Central Library .
On June 27, 1577 , a child with physical malformations was born in the village of Hohen Eich , today Hoheneiche in the Wehretal south of Eschwege . Dietmar Merluam described it in his woodcut as a "horrible, terrible and unheard-of freak in the state of Hesse to the village community belonging to the high oak of the nobles of the Ehrsten von Boyneburg ..." The child who was unable to live died on July 12, 1577.
The child is shown with a hydrocephalus-like swelling over his actual skull. The child is conspicuous by its open mouth and a rounded nose with wide open nostrils.
literature
- Dietmar Merluam: freak of Hohen Eich . Information on the original woodcut written by the woodcutter himself in 1577, kept in the Zurich Central Library