Paul of Aegina

Paul of Aegina (also: Paul Aegineta, Paul of Aegina ) was derived from the island of Aegina, operating in Alexandria in the 7th century physician.

It is unclear whether Paul of Aegina was a Christian. He worked as a physician at least in Alexandria when the city was conquered by the Arabs in 642. He probably worked there even after the conquest. About his life nothing is further known. A well-known from several manuscripts epigram refers to him as periodeutes, as a traveling doctor.

As the last of its kind from Paul of Aegina receive an encyclopedia that has been handed down without a title, but is referred to because of their introduction as medical collections. It consists of seven books:

Paulos saw his work in the tradition of Oribasius, but it should be more complete and easier to use than his work and still do not go beyond a simple manual. Sources were mainly Oribasius, but also the works of Hippocrates, Corpus Hippocraticum, Soranus, Dioscorides Pedanios, Galen and Aetius.

There may be yet another work of Paulo on gynecology, as suggested by Arabic sources. However, it is equally possible that only the part of the gynecology from his sixth book in an independent form was circulated. His gynecological works were appreciated in Arab times so that he got the nickname obstetrician.

Paul of Aiginas work was preserved in various manuscripts. Maybe the books were reorganized in late antiquity, at least the sixth and seventh book seem to have been divided into two volumes. Since the 9th century there were Arabic translations. In Arabic medicine, the work was also very well received. In the Latin literature Paulos was not known before the 11th century, and then only in part. Since the 12th century it was known, but only by quotations in the translated works of Arab physicians. For the first time in 1528 the entire work was published in Venice by Francesco D' Ascola and is from the 16th century in many editions ago.

Carl Linnaeus named in his honor, the genus of the plant family Aeginetia the broomrape family ( Orobanchaceae ).

Expenditure

  • Johann Winter ( Translator ): Pauli Aeginetae Opus de re medica. Attached works: Adiectis in eundem doctissimis et quam utilissimis annotationibus from Same date Andernaco elucubratis cum indice copiosissimo. Venetiis 1542 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Francis Adams ( Translator ): The Seven Books of Paulus Aegineta, Vol 1, London 1844.
  • Julius Berendes (translator ): Des Paul of Aegina demolition of the whole medicine in seven books. Janus 1 (1908 )
  • Paulos ' of Aegina the best doctor's seven books: together with an appendix: The Roman Baths, occurring at Paulos elders doctors, and two panels.. - Leiden: Brill, 1914 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Ancient healing arts. Selected texts, edited by Jutta Kollesch and Diethard Nickel, Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 978-3-15-009305-4
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