Christian Franz Paullini

Christian Franz Paullini (* February 25, 1643 in Eisenach, † June 10, 1712 in Eisenach ) was a medical doctor, polymath and writer in German and Latin.

Life

The multi-talented scholars came from a Eisenach merchant and academic family. He attended several Thuringian schools to eventually store on Coburg high school graduated from high school. He studied medicine and theology in Danzig, Königsberg, Rostock, Lübeck, Kiel and Copenhagen, received his master's degree at Wittenberg, and the MD degree in Leiden. In between there were long and short stay in Cambridge, Oxford, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. He was the personal physician and historiographer of the Bishop of Münster and later "body - Medicus " at the Brunswick court in Wolfenbüttel. In 1685 he returned to Eisenach and took there in 1689 the post of " Ducal Stadtphysicus " to.

One of the last polymaths Paullini be made ​​in his lifetime, not only as a doctor but also as a writer, historian, philosopher, ethnographer and a name. He corresponded with, among others, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and was known to the learned Jesuit Athanasius Kircher. In his long life as a private scholar, he wrote at least 50 books. He was a member of linguistics and literature societies and scientific academies, such as the Fruit -bearing Society (as The Watchful ), which existed until today Pegnesischen flower north and the Leopoldina, the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

Works

Special distribution obtained Paullinis font Healing dirt pharmacy that has seen numerous new editions and reprints. The organization offers an extensive collection of recipes for the internal and external medical application of human and animal excreta. It moved in the theoretical framework of contemporary humoral pathology, citing numerous authorities ancient and modern medicine, but also in folk medicine practices of " peasants / sailors / and the like poor people " (1697, pp. 5r ) and offers numerous correspondences to and otherwise known recipes of traditional and contemporary medicine. But in focusing on the therapeutic effect of excreta, coupled with an encyclopedic breadth of representation of all possible applications from the main to the feet, the work was a novelty about the after disclosure of the preface of 1697 many " butt - brain " under the contemporaries already wrinkled her nose ( Bl 3r ).

Repute evil is Paullini in historical research for his part in the publication or creation of several forgeries supposedly medieval sources. His 1698 anthology published Rerum et Antiquitatum Germanicarum Syntagma contained but six own essays and chronicles also eleven previously unknown medieval source texts, one of which, inter alia, the Chronicon Mindense and three relevant for the history of the monastery of Corvey texts - the Chronicon Hüxariense, the Annales Corbeienses (to be distinguished from the same real work MGH SS 5.3) and the Carmen de Brunsburgo - were proven to be fakes since the 19th century and with some probability Paullini attributable, as well as some other sources and documents cited by Paullini in his Dissertationes historicae ( 1694 ) or separately published or in its historical and Chronicler's writings.

Others

Hubert Horstmann, as historians of philosophy, an expert on the era Paullinis has processed the biography of a Roman ( Christian Franz Paullini: doctor - Poet - historian - forgers, BKP -Verlag, Zweibrücken 2011)

Works (selection)

A scale to be exhaustive list of printed documents Paullinis offers the personal bibliography of Gerhard Dünnhaupt.

• Cynographia curiosa seu descriptio canis. Nuremberg 1685
• Coenarum Helena, seu Angvilla: Juxta Methodum Et Leges Academiae Naturae Illustris Curiosorum descripta, Selectisq [ ue ] Observationibus & Curiositatibus condita. Wohlfahrt, Francofurti 1689 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
• De antiqua et nobili familia Cottarum, Dissertatione historica. Casting 1694 ( Engl. Übs udT dissertation on the ancient and noble family of Cotta. Hall, City Archives Eisenach 1940)
• Healing mud Pharmacy: How namely with mud and urine Almost all / yes even the heaviest / gifftige Kranckheiten / and charmed damage / from the main bit initially feet were inn- and outwardly happy curirt, Friedrich Knoche, Frankfurt am Main 1696, 2nd ed under the title New Increased / Healing dirt pharmacy ibid 1697 ( on the engraved title with date 1696 ), since the 15th edition of 1714 in two volumes published posthumously with additions in the second band Digital copy of the 2nd Edition of 1697 in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel
• Reprint of 1908 as Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf