Theodoric Ulsenius
Theoderich Ulsenius , also known as Dietrich Ulsenius (* around 1460 in Zwolle , † around 1508 in 's-Hertogenbosch ), was a doctor and poet who worked at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries.
Life
Ulsenius came from Friesland . He was a Magister artium and Doctor medicinae. He may have obtained these degrees in Italy. At the end of the 15th century he worked as a city physician in Nuremberg . In 1496 he published his poem about the "pleasure epidemic" syphilis with Hans Mair , which was probably illustrated by Albrecht Dürer . The work entitled Vaticinium in epidemicam scabiem, quae passim toto orbe grassatur is written in hexameters and consists of 100 verses. It depicts a dream in which Apollo appears to the author and speaks to him. An ominous conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is given as the reason for the epidemic.
In spite of the belief in prodigies expressed in these verses, the poem is considered to be one of the oldest descriptions of syphilis by a German doctor. In 1843, Professor CH Fuchs published a collection of the oldest writers on the lust epidemic in Germany , in which he wanted to include the leaflet, which at that time was considered lost. Only when he opened a copy in the Court and State Library in Munich was he able to write an addendum. In 1900 Johann Ueltzen published a reproduction of the Vaticinium .
In the same year as the Vaticinium , another poem by the doctor came out, also in Nuremberg: De pharmacandi comprobata ratione, medicinarum rectificatione symptomatumque purgationis hora supervenientium emendatione libri II . This work, written in distiches , was included by Georg Pistorius in his editions of the Sermones convivales of 1559 and 1571. It is possibly identical to the De clinico pharmacandi modo libri duo , which, according to Panzer, were also printed in Nuremberg in 1496.
In Nuremberg Ulsenius made friends with Conrad Celtis . He later became the personal physician of the Dukes of Mecklenburg . On February 7, 1507, he took an oath in this capacity, which has been handed down. Later testimonies from his life are not known.
literature
- Philipp Portwich: The leaflet of the Nuremberg doctor Theodoricus Ulsenius from 1496. In: Reports on the history of science . 21, 2-3, 1998, pp. 175-183.
- Catrien Santing: Geneeskunde en humanisme: Een intellectuele biography van Theodericus Ulsenius (c. 1460-1508). Erasmus, 1992, ISBN 978-90-5235-034-9 .
- Hermann Arthur Lier : Ulsenius, Theoderich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 270 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ thefreelibrary.com
- ^ CG Santing: [Medicine and humanism: insights of the Nürnberg city physician Theodericus Ulsenius regarding Morbus Gallicus] . In: Sudhoff's archive . tape 79 , no. 2 , 1995, ISSN 0039-4564 , pp. 138-149 , PMID 8658589 .
- ↑ springerlink.com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ulsenius, Theodoric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ulsenius, Dietrich; Ulsenius, Theodoricus; Ulsenius, Theodericus; Ulsen, Dirk van; Ulsen, Dietrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1460 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwolle |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1508 |
| Place of death | 's-Hertogenbosch |