Yuhanna ibn Masawaih
Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (completely Abu Zakarīyā Yūḥannā ibn Māsawaih , also in Persian for short ابن ماسویه Ibn Masawaih , DMG Ibn Māsawaih ), German (Johannes) Mesuë the Elder , Latin Johannes Mesue (senior) (* around 777 in Khuz near Ninive ; † around 857 in Samarra ), was a Syrian doctor and writer of Persian descent.
Life
Yūhannā was a Nestorian Christian , came from a family of doctors in Gundishapur (Persia) and was the son of Abū Yūḫannā Māsawaih. He studied with Gabriel ibn Bochtischu , whose successor he later became, and with Isho bar Nun (823-828), the later Catholicos . He was appointed head of a hospital by Caliph Hārūn ar-Rashīd and also served his successors al-Ma'mun , al-Mutasim , al-Wathiq and al-Mutawakkil . Al-Ma'mun entrusted him with the management of the translation work in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad , but Yūhannā's own translations have not survived.
His most popular work, the Axioms of Medicine , a collection of 132 aphorisms that emphasize the dependence of the physical on the mental condition, was also distributed in Latin translation in the Latin West and was ascribed to John of Damascus in the early Latin prints (which is probably one of Representation of Saint John of Damascus in the Milan Cathedral surrounded by doctors' pictures ). There are also numerous other medical publications, e.g. T. only in fragments.
He was also credited with a medical prescription book called the Grabadin .
Work editions
- Opera. Venice: Peregrino Pasquale, 1489–1491. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Opera. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 31. III. 1495. ( digitized version )
- Ioannis Mesuae Opera. Venetiis: Iunta, 1623. ( digitized version )
- Joannes Mesue, Antidotarium. Bertocchi, Venice 1484.
literature
- Ibn-Masawaih, Abu-Zakariya Yuhanna: Canones universales cum expositione Mondini ... ac cum expositione Christophori ..., Venetiis 1495
- Curt Prüfer , Max Meyerhof : The ophthalmology of Jûḥannā ben Mâsawaih (777-857 AD). In: Islam. Volume 6, 1916, pp. 348-356.
- The Book of the Ten Treaties , ed.Max Meyerhof, Cairo 1928
- Kitab al-Azmina. Le livre des temps d 'Ibn Massawaih, médicin chrétien célèbre décédé en 857, ed. Paul Sbath, in: Bulletin de l' Institut d 'Egypte 15, 1933, 235–257
- An-Nawadir at-tibbya. Les Axiomes médicaux de Yohanna Ben Massawaih, ed. Paul Sbath, Cairo 1934; french Translation by Danielle Jacquart u. G. Troupeau, Geneva 1980.
- Wilhelm Baum: Yuhanna ibn Masawaih. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 1579-1582.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gundolf Keil : Mesue. 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 , pp. 979 f .; here: p. 979.
- ^ Gotthard Strohmaier : Avicenna. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-41946-1 , p. 152.
- ↑ Lenká Vaňková, Gundolf Keil: Mesuë a jeho 'Grabadin'. Standardní dílo středovĕké farmacie / Mesuë and his 'grave lady'. A standard work of medieval pharmacy. Edition - Translation - Commentary / Edice - Přzeklad - Komentař. Ostrava / Mährisch Ostrau 2005.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yuhanna ibn Masawaih |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mesue, Johannes senior (Latinized) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Christian Nestorian doctor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | at 777 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Khuz at Nineveh |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 857 |
| Place of death | Samarra |