Symphorien Champier

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Symphorien Champier

Symphorien Champier (* 1471 in Saint-Symphorien , France, † 1539 in Lyon ) was a doctor , historian , translator and editor .

He was married to Marguerite Terrail and through her related marriage to Pierre du Terrail , Chevalier de Bayard, about whom he wrote a biography .

Life

As a doctor of medicine in Montpellier , Champier was the personal doctor of Anton II , whom he followed to Italy when he was there as a follower of Louis XII. participated in several battles. Finally he settled in Lyon. In Lyon he works with François Rabelais , who satirically described Champier in his work Gargantua and Pantagruel . In Lyon he founded the Collège des médecins de Lyon and held a number of offices in the city's foundations, including the École des médecins de Lyon. He was also acquainted with the doctor and publisher of the Drexel printing company, Michael Servetus .

In addition to his efforts in medical science, he studied the works of Greek and Arabic authors and wrote a variety of historical books, including the Chroniques de Savoie in 1516 and Vie de Bayard in 1525 .

Initially connected to the teaching of Arab medicine such as Avicenna and thus connected to “Arabism”, he represented “ Galenism ” from 1533 onwards as part of his research into galenic medicine, which was influenced by Greek .

Champier edited the works of the Knight Templar and medicine doctor Arnaldus de Villanova and wrote a biography about him.

Fonts

  • Symphonia Platonis cum Aristotele et Galeni cum Hippocrate Hippocratica philosophia ejusdem (Paris 1516)
  • Speculum Galeni (Lyon 1517)
  • De quadruplici vita (Lyon 1507)
  • Periarchon, id est de principiis Platonicarum disciplinarum omniumque doctrinarum (1514)
  • Janua logicae et physicae (Lyon 1496)
  • Chroniques de Savoie (1516)
  • Vie de Bayard (1525)
  • Clysteriorum camporum secundum Galeni mentem libellus (1532)
  • Hortus gallicus (1533)
  • Speculum medici christiani (1533)
  • Gallicum pentapharmacum (1534)

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke : Michael Servetus , In: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Munich p. 329 + 330, 2nd edition 2001 p. 288, 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 299+ 300 Medical glossary 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
  2. ^ Gerhard Baader : Medical reform thinking and Arabism in Germany in the 16th century. In: Sudhoff's archive. Volume 63, 1979, pp. 261-296.
  3. ^ Gotthard Strohmaier : Avicenna. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-41946-1 , p. 153 f.
personal data
SURNAME Champier, symphories
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor, historian, translator and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1471
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Symphorien , France
DATE OF DEATH 1539
Place of death Lyon