Mkhitar Heratsi
Mkhitar Heratsi ( Armenian Մխիթար Հերացի Mchitar Herazi ), also Mechithar from Her , was an Armenian medic of the 12th century. He was born in Her (now Choi , Iran ) and trained in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia , in whose capital Sis he also mainly worked. He is regarded as the founder of classical Armenian medicine.
He wrote his main work “Consolation in Fever” in 1184 and deals with the treatment of diseases that cause fever, such as malaria, yellow fever or typhoid, which were widespread in medieval Cilicia. It has been preserved in its entirety. It is noteworthy that it was not written in the classical Armenian customary at the time , but in Central Armenian , the language of the people; apparently to make it accessible to more people.
A complete manuscript of the work was discovered in Constantinople in 1727 and acquired by the French National Library in Paris. The first complete translation of it was published in German by Ernst Seidel in 1908.
The official name of the Yerevan State Medical University has been Heratsis since 1989.
literature
- Ernst Seidel: Mechithar's from the master doctor from Her “Consolation in Fever”. After the Venice print of 1832 for the first time from Central Armenian . Barth, Leipzig 1908.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mkhitar Heratsi (Mkhitar of Her) (1120-1200). In: Agop Jack Hacikyan et al. (Ed.): The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the sixth to the eighteenth century. Vol. 2, Wayne State University Press, Detroit 2002, pp. 427 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heratsi, Mkhitar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mechithar from Her; Herazi, Mchitar; Մխիթար Հերացի |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Her |
| DATE OF DEATH | 12th century or 13th century |