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)
See also
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literature
- Symphorien Champier: Dictionnaire Bouillet .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ Gerhard Baader : Medical reform thinking and Arabism in Germany in the 16th century. In: Sudhoff's archive. Volume 63, 1979, pp. 261-296.
- ^ Gotthard Strohmaier : Avicenna. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-41946-1 , p. 153 f.
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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 |