Spirit rector

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Spiritus Rector ( Latin : spīrĭtŭs rēctŏr , dt. Pronunciation mostly with a short e, "leading, guiding spirit") is a Latin phraseologism and denotes a person from whom a community, or less often an individual, is spiritually guided leaves.

Depending on the context, this can mean a leadership role in religious, ideological, political, artistic or other questions that arise little or no from a special office, but primarily from the recognition of the particular spiritual and intellectual abilities of the person concerned.

In traditional alchemy , Spiritus rector was a name for the spiritual principle that holds all things together; in medicine, in connection with Paracelsus, a name for the archaeus maximus (from Greek arche : origin), the primal force that rules the organism of living beings. In chemistry , the term was then introduced in the 18th century by Herman Boerhaave as a technical term for a volatile, fiery, water-soluble and air-mixing substance that is common to all vegetable oils and is said to be the cause of their smell and taste. Boerhaave's theory of the spiritus rector ( French : esprit recteur , Italian : spirito rettore ) was discussed in the natural sciences until the 19th century and was only gradually replaced by more recent theories that no longer refer to smell and taste ( aroma ) as their own substance but can be traced back to the mixing and oxidation of the components involved.

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Wiktionary: Spiritus Rector  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meaning according to Duden
  2. ↑ Proof of usage in German news corpus based on texts (University of Leipzig)
  3. ↑ Meaning of the word at DWDS (Digital Dictionary of the German Language) / Center for Digital Lexicography of the German Language (ZDL) / Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW)
  4. ↑ Heribert Nobis : Archaeus. In: Werner E. Gerabek u. a. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , pp. 93-95; here: p. 93.
  5. ↑ Keyword Olea aetherea in Die Preußische Pharmacopoea (Borussica) , Part 2: Prepared and compound resources, 1829, p. 580
  6. ↑ Keyword Spiritus (invigorating) in Johann Georg Kruenitz, Friedrich-Jakob Floerke, Heinrich Gustav Floerke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Ludwig Kossarski, Carl Otto Hoffmann: Economic Encyclopaedie or general system of state, town, house and agriculture in alphabetical order , Volume 159, 1833, pp. 115-117