Eucharius Rösslin

Eucharius Rösslin the Elder, also Eucharius Rößlin (* 1470, † September 1526 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German physician.

Life

Eucharius Rösslin worked as a pharmacist in Freiburg from 1493. After a conviction for a fight he left the city and went first as city physician to Frankfurt am Main. There he was in the service of the Duchess Catherine of Saxony and Brunswick, the wife of Duke Eric I of Brunswick -Lüneburg. To her he dedicated his 1513 printer when Martin Flach ( 1440 -ca. 1510) published in Strasbourg rose garden. 1513 he worked as a doctor in the city of Worms, where he again went to Frankfurt in 1517, there to act as town doctor again. He died there in late September 1526, whereupon his son Eucharius Rösslin was the younger successor in the office of the Frankfurt city physician.

The Rose Garden

The pregnant women and midwives Rose Garden, as its full title, is the first major manual on midwifery and is based on ancient texts, especially works by Soranus of Ephesus. The 13 chapters contain 25 custom built by Erhard Schön woodcuts on which different child records and a birthing chair are presented. This book was. Due to numerous reissues for a long time the standard work for midwives

The word Rose ( s) garden here denotes a book as a collection of different texts (see also Rose Garden of Worms ), where the individual components are perceived as roses, to which the recipient can enjoy. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm see the origin of the naming tradition in Persian Rose Garden ( Gulistan ) of Saadi.

His son Eucharius Rösslin the Younger rendered the work into Latin, and gave him the title De partu hominis.

During the 16th century the Rose ( s) has been gardening from German and Latin into many European languages ​​translated and partially launched until the 18th century.

In matrimony Pharmacopoeia ( Ehstands Arzneybuch ) from 1526 is the rose garden, together with the writings of Johann Wonnecke of Kaub ( women drug ), Albertus Magnus ( The secrets ), Ludovicus Bonatiolus ( From sorglichen coincidences of pregnant women) and Bartholomew Metlinger ( Leibspflegung or Kindspflegung ) laid.

Works

• The Swangern Frauwen VND hebamen rose garden. (Strasbourg, 1513) digitized