Ulrich Ellenbog

Facsimile of a page of a medical treatise by Ulrich Ellenbog from the Weissenau monastery. Made between 1490 and 1491 ..

First page of the treatise on "... poisonous broom temples ..." from the Vorarlberg State Archives ( Vorarlberg State Library ).

Ulrich Ellenbog (* around 1435 in Feldkirch ; † January 19, 1499 in Memmingen ) was an Austrian - South German doctor and university professor.

Life

Ulrich Ellenbog was the son of a, presumably from elbow / approx 1435 Bezau in Bregenzerwald coming, Schneider was born in Feldkirch. He began his studies of the fine arts ( Bacc. Art. ) In Vienna in 1450 , then continued in 1453 in Heidelberg , where he received his master's degree . He then studied medicine in Pavia and received his doctorate there in 1459 . In 1460 he lived again in Feldkirch and finished a work on the spa system (Tractatulus de balneis), which was spread for several decades. In it he describes, among other things, the seaside resorts of Elbogen , Baden in Aargau, Baden near Vienna and Markgrafenbad.

Around 1470 he lived in Memmingen , was married to a wealthy woman and was an episcopal doctor in Augsburg from 1474 to 1478 . In 1472 he took part in the celebrations to mark the founding of the University of Ingolstadt and was one of the first professors of medicine there . Shortly afterwards he lives in Biberach. In March 1481 he became a city ​​doctor in Memmingen and also in Ravensburg . He is also mentioned as a doctor in 1481 in connection with the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Biberach . He is also mentioned as the personal physician of Duke Sigismund of Tyrol .

Three of his sons studied, his son Nikolaus (1481–1543) was a learned monk in the Ottobeuren monastery .

Ulrich Ellenbog is said to have had a rich library, which was destroyed in the peasant wars in Ottobeuren, where his son Nikolaus had brought it.

His 1473 writing “ From the poisonous brooms Temmpffen and Reuchen, the metal, as silver, quicksilver Bley and otherwise So the noble handtwerck of Goltschmidens, and other arbaiter in des feür have to use ” has found widespread use up to modern times as the earliest medical treatise and is said to have been included in the works of Paracelsus .

Works

• Duke Siegmund's little book on urinary disorders. 1460 (dedicated to Duke Siegmund).
• De Ptisi. 1480.
• Order the doctor Ulrich von ellenbog anno 1482 zuo Memingen the gemaind set, and ditz in the current anruor 1494 bestaett skin. Memmingen 1482.
• Instructions against pestilence. A miraculous jnstruction and vnderwysung against the pestilentz: flowing from imperial hope and all the hardest doctoribus in Christian from [d] haydescher nacion could be found. Memmingen 1494.
• Here after volget a good regime [n] t and ordu [n] g and valued p [rae] seruatiua vnd ler. How to stay against the speeches of the pestilentz and how to guard against them. Michael Reyser, Eichstätt 1485/1490 ( digitized version of the Herzog August Library ); multiple reprints up to the 20th century.
• From the poignant brooms Temmpffen and Reuchen, the metal, as silver, quicksilver Bley and otherwise So the noble handicrafts of the goldsmith and other arbaiter in the fire have to use. Augsburg (1473) ca.1525.

literature

• Peter Assion : Ulrich Ellenbog. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd ed., II, col. 495-501.
• Anton Breher: The Memmingen city doctor Ulrich Ellenbog and his plague writings. Oechelhäuser, Kempten 1942 (dissertation, University of Berlin, 1942).
• Claudia Helbok: Important Vorarlbergers. 30 life pictures from a series (= Dornbirner Studiohefte. 2). ORF regional studio Vorarlberg, Dornbirn 1967, p. 9 f.
• Gundolf Keil : Ellenbog, Ulrich. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 343 f.
• Franz Koelsch , Friedrich Zoepfl (Hrsg.): From the good broom tempffen and Reuchen. A trade-hygienic font of the XV. Century. Münchner Drucke, Munich 1927 (= Munich contributions to the history and literature of the natural sciences and medicine , II. Special issue).
• Andreas Kraus , Max Spindler : History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century. 3. Edition. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-39452-3 .
• Heinz Kürten : "De ptisi". A consilium of the Memmingen city doctor Dr. Ulrich Ellenbog of 1480 for pulmonary consumption and its treatment. In: Sudhoff's archive for the history of medicine . Volume 24 (1931), pp. 245-257 ( digitized in JSTOR ).
• Edwin Rosner : Ulrich Ellenbog and the beginnings of industrial hygiene. In: Sudhoff's archive for the history of medicine and the natural sciences . Volume 38 (1954), pp. 104-110 ( digitized in JSTOR ).
• Vivian Nutton : Ellenbogiana. In: Würzburger medical history reports 8, 1990, pp. 221–224.
• Edwin Rosner :  Ellenbog, Ulrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 454 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Schnitzlein: The Codex Vadiana 429 and Ulrich Ellenbog (1435-1499). 1983 (Dissertation, Technical University of Munich, 1984).
• Friedrich Zoepfl : The doctor Ulrich Ellenbog. In: Archives for the history of the Hochstift Augsburg. Volume 5, 1916-1919, pp. 111-164 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Ellenbog  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works

Remarks

1. ^ Gundolf Keil: Ulrich Ellenbog. 2005, p. 343.
2. ↑ Manuscript National Library Vienna, cod. 5505.
3. ↑ Frank Fürbeth : Bibliography of the German or in the German area published baths of the 15th and 16th centuries. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 217-252; here: p. 221.
4. ↑ See also: St. Wolfgang Franciscan Monastery in Kreuznach .
5. ↑ Vivian Nutton, p. 221
6. ↑ See also: Frank Fürbeth: The book collection of the Memmingen doctor Ulrich Ellenbog (1435–1499) In: FS Tilo Brandis. 2000, pp. 541-553.
7. ↑ Vivian Nutton, p. 221