Achilles Gasser

Achilles Pirmin Gasser (also Gasserus; born November 3, 1505 Lindau, † December 4, 1577 in Augsburg ) was a German historian, physician and astrologer.

Life

Born the son of a shearer and surgeons and subsequent personal physician of Maximilian I., Ulrich Gasser, and his wife Ursula ( née Randeck ), he enjoyed his first lessons at the Latin school in Schlettstadt and Lindau. Soon he came into contact with Rhegius Urbanus, who familiarized him with the physics and the Reformation ideas of Martin Luther. To get to know these ideas in more detail, he went in 1522 to the University of Wittenberg, moved there the philosophical faculty, dealt there with the ancient languages ​​and also flirted with medicine.

Above all, he attended the lectures of Luther and Philipp Melanchthon. In 1525 he went to the University of Vienna, where he graduated with Wolfgang Lazius, the son of his teacher Simon Lazius, close friendship. This worked intensively with medical and historical research. In that circle strongly encouraged to Gasser specializes in the study of medicine. To this end, he goes to the University of Montpellier and at the University of Avignon. At the latter university he graduated as doctor of medicine, then worked as a doctor in Feldkirch 1546 and moved to Augsburg, where he worked until his death.

Gasser was one of the authors of the Augsburg annals. His broad interests are reflected in an intense exchange of letters, have remained of which only 25 copies. Also preserved are his collection of recipes as well as its several editions treatises on the plague and the pharmacist order. He was involved in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia. There he described the cities Feldkirch, Chur, Lindau and Augsburg. He was responsible for this work is a map of the Allgäu. In addition, he worked on astrological topics, wrote an astronomical outline of the globe, edited the Gospel book by Otfried of White Castle, which he expanded to a dictionary. His historical work " Historiarum et chronicorum mundi epitome " was put on the Index, as he had stood up for Matthias Flacius it.

According to the Nicolaus Copernicus Biography of Pierre Gassendi 1654 Gasser had knowledge of his major work De revolutionibus in 1543 to published Orbium Coelestium and was an early supporter of his worldview.

Selections

  • " Ainfeltiger and gegrünter report as mennigklich transition to keep up with artzneyen and other lybsnot in Pestilentzischen, keep together and to genören " Nuremberg 1544
  • "Under layer resists the pestilence ... " Nuremberg 1564
  • Rare "Historia de altera gestione fetus mortui " in R. Dodonnäus examples of medical observations, Cologne 1581
  • " Historiarum et chronicorum mundi epitome "
  • " Aphorismorum Hippocratis methodus nova ... ", St. Gallen 1584
  • Recipes in " Curationes et Observatines medicinales ", Ulm GH Welsch, Ulm 1668
  • " Description and removal on the comet, so in the fall of 1532 jar appeared ... is ," Lindau 1532
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