Theobaldus van Hoghelande

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Theobaldus van Hoghelande , also Hohelande, (* around 1560 ; † 1608 ) was a Dutch alchemist who worked in Middelburg .

Some also identify him with the author Ewald van Hoghelande (who is sometimes also identified with the alchemical author Ewald Vogelius), according to others they are brothers. The book Short report and clear proof that alchemy ... a strange gift from God (Leipzig 1604) by Ewald von Hoghelande claims to convince his brother Theobald of the veracity of alchemy. Christian Gottlieb Jöcher and Ferguson see Ewald and Theobald as different. According to RJW Evans, the biographer of Rudolf II , he was temporarily in Prague at the court of Rudolf II and there received information about Ramon Lull from the Spanish ambassador San Clemente, who boasted a relationship with Lull.

In his writings he defended alchemy against critics. Some of his writings are printed in the Theatrum Chemicum .

Fonts

  • De alchemia difficultatibus Theobaldi de Hoghelande Mittelburgensis Liber, Cologne 1594, digitized
    • also as Merces Alchymistarum 1610
    • German translations: Treatise of the obstacles in alchemy, Gotha 1749, Von den Irrwegen der Alchemisten, Frankfurt 1600
  • De lapidis physici conditionibus Liber, Cologne 1595
  • Historiae aliquot transmutationis metallicae, Cologne 1604 (as Ewald van Hoghelande with the biography of Ramon Llull )
    • A German translation appeared in Leipzig in 1604 ( short report ... , see above)

literature

  • Frank Greiner: Écriture et ésotérisme dans un traité alchimique de la fin de la Renaissance: Le De Alchemiae difficultatibus de Theobald de Hoghelande, Bulletin de l'Association d'étude sur l'humanisme, la réforme et la Renaissance, No. 38, 1994 , Pp. 45-71
  • John Ferguson: Bibliotheca Chemica, Glasgow 1906, Volume 1, pp. 411f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General dictionary of scholars 1750
  2. ↑ RJW Evans, Rudolf II, Styria 1980, p 149. Evans (S. 140) was Ewald a historical figure and not a pseudonym.
personal data
SURNAME Hoghelande, Theobaldus van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoghelande, Theobald van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch alchemist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1560
DATE OF DEATH 1608