Urso of Salerno

Urso von Salerno (also Urso von Kalabrien or Latin Ursus Calaber or Urso Salernitanus ; * in the 12th century , † around 1225 ) was an Italian doctor , philosopher and author .

Life

He is considered the author of major works of the Salerno Medical School and is considered one of the school's leading figures. He is considered the most important representative of Aristotelian theories; in particular from Physica ( Meteorologia ) and De caelo he developed his own natural philosophical system.

The urine writing of his pupil Gilles de Corbeil testifies to the admiration for Uros's teachings .

Works

Anatomia
Compendium de urinis (a urinary tract, also translated in the German Salernitan Pharmacopoeia at the beginning of the 13th century)
De commixtionibus elementorum
Glossules
De effectibus medicinarum
De effectibus qualitatum
De criticis diebus
De pulsibus
De saporibus et numero eorundem
Aphorism

literature

Gundolf Keil : Urso v. Salerno . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 8, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89659-908-9 , Sp. 1331 f.
Gundolf Keil: Urso of Salerno. In: In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (Hrsg.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, p. 1431 f.
Wolfgang Stürner (Ed.): Urso von Salerno, 'De commixtionibus elementorum libellus'. Klett, Stuttgart 1976 (= Stuttgart contributions to history and politics. Volume 7), ISBN 3-12-907480-5 . Cf. critical of this Konrad Goehl (ed.): Guido d'Arezzi dJ, Liber mitis. 2 volumes. Pattensen 1984 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Volume 32), here: Volume 1, pp. 18 f., 244 f. and 414 f.
Rudolf Creutz, Paul Diepgen : The medical-natural philosophical aphorisms and comments of Magister Urso Salernitanus In: Sources and studies on the history of natural sciences and medicine, Vol. 5 (1936) pp. 1–192
Arthur Rathke: Urso von Salerno and the methodical school. A contribution to the transmission of methodical thinking in the medical literature of scholasticism, Berlin 1944
Curt Matthaes: The Salernitan doctor Urso from the 2nd half of the 12th century and his two writings 'De effectibus qualitatum' and 'De effectibus medicinarum'. (With Latin and German text) Dissertation Leipzig 1918.

Web links

Publications on Urso von Salerno in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

^ Klaus-Dietrich Fischer : Urso von Salerno. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1995, p. 360; 2nd edition ibid 2001, p. 314, 3rd edition Springer Verlag Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, p. 327. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
↑ Gundolf Keil: "blutken - bloedekijn". Notes on the etiology of the hyposphagma genesis in the 'Pommersfeld Silesian Eye Booklet' (1st third of the 15th century). With an overview of the ophthalmological texts of the German Middle Ages. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013, pp. 7–175, here: pp. 16 f.
↑ Wolfgang Stürner (Ed.): Urso von Salerno, 'De commixtionibus elementorum libellus'. Klett, Stuttgart 1976 (= Stuttgart contributions to history and politics. Volume 7), ISBN 3-12-907480-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Urso of Salerno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Urso Salernitanus; Urso of Calabria; Ursus Calaber; Urso di Calabria; Urso di Salerno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian doctor, philosopher and author
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	1225

[1] Klaus-Dietrich Fischer : Urso von Salerno. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present. CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1995, p. 360; 2nd edition ibid 2001, p. 314, 3rd edition Springer Verlag Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, p. 327. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .

[2] Gundolf Keil: "blutken - bloedekijn". Notes on the etiology of the hyposphagma genesis in the 'Pommersfeld Silesian Eye Booklet' (1st third of the 15th century). With an overview of the ophthalmological texts of the German Middle Ages. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013, pp. 7–175, here: pp. 16 f.

[3] Wolfgang Stürner (Ed.): Urso von Salerno, 'De commixtionibus elementorum libellus'. Klett, Stuttgart 1976 (= Stuttgart contributions to history and politics. Volume 7), ISBN 3-12-907480-5 .