Paul (alchemist)

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Paulus is the name of the first alchemist in Germany from whom news has been received. Adam von Bremen reports in his chronicle that in 1063 a baptized Jew named Paul appeared at the court of Bishop Adalbert von Bremen , who claimed to have learned in Greece how to make gold from copper. He gained quite a bit of influence over Adalbert but was then expelled as a cheater. After that there are reports of alchemists in Germany only in the 13th century.

literature

  • Entry Paulus in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch 1989

Individual evidence

  1. Ernst von Meyer , History of Chemistry, 1899, 1914