Aqua paracelsus biography

"Paracelsus the Physician". Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 15, edited by R. F.C. Hull, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966, pp. 13-30. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400850884.13

(1966). Paracelsus the Physician. In R. Hull (Ed.), Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 15 (pp. 13-30). Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400850884.13

1966. Paracelsus the Physician. In: Hull, R. ed. Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 15. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 13-30. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400850884.13

"Paracelsus the Physician" In Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 15 edited by R. F.C. Hull, 13-30. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400850884.13

Paracelsus the Physician. In: Hull R (ed.) Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 15. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 1966. p.13-30. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400850884.13

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Abstract

While De Pestilitate is generally regarded as pseudepigraphic by modern scholarship, the treatise occupied a prominent place in Johann Huser’s definitive edition of Paracelsus’ Bücher und Schrifften (1589–1591). The text offers a compelling and generally reliable guide to Paracelsian plague theory with clear resemblances to the authentic Zwey Bücher von der Pestilentz und ihren zufällen and De Peste Libri tres. The text emphasizes the astrological transmission of the disease, describes a large role for divine retribution and demonological agency, and promotes the utility of folkloric cures. While the plague theory reflects Paracelsus’ own thought and is well synthesized with his tria prima chemical philosophy, there are sufficient dissonances between the text and the corpus of his accepted writings to maintain its pseudepigraphic status, even if it displays some indications of a reworking of genuine Paracelsica.

Written by Tel Asiado.

Early Life

Paracelsus was born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), in the village of Einsiedeln, Switzerland. His name referred to Aurus Cornelius Celsus, the celebrated Roman encyclopaedist, one of the greatest medical writers of his time. Paracelsus' father, Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim, was a Swabian (German) chemist and physician, and his mother was Swiss, presumed to have died when Paracelsus was a child.

Major Accomplishments

Paracelsus was a German-Swiss alchemist and Renaissance physician, whose main interest included alchemy, botany, physiology, astrology, science, and the occult. His personality was seen as stubborn and independent, an embattled reformer, and a revolutionary who insisted in using observations of nature rather than looking to ancient texts, a radical defiance of the medical practice at the time. He preferred experience and experimentation over knowledge.

 A legacy of Paracelsus is his critique of the scholastic methods in medicine, science and theology. He stressed t