Taddeo Alderotti
Taddeo Alderotti (also: Alderottus Thaddaeus, Thaddeus Florentinus and Taddeo degli Alderoni ) (* 1215-1223 in Florence, † 1295 or 1303) was an Italian physician and founder of a medical school in Bologna.
Life
Alderotti was born according to legend, as a child of poor people 1215-1233 and to have been illiterate until his 30th birthday. In his youth, he earned his living by selling candles in front of the Florentine churches. Around 1250 he began to study in Bologna.
1260 he began to teach medicine in Bologna, which was created as an educational center for all of Europe during the previous century. There, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (1123-1190) had founded the first Western University 1158. At this time the city had had begun to develop a community of medical students.
1264 burned Alderotti in Bologna for the first time wine. From the aqua ardens of the alchemists was the aqua vitae of the medical professionals.
Years later, Dante Alighieri described him in his Divine Comedy (XII 0.82-85 ) as " Hippocratist " that is, followers of Hippocrates. He is a role model Alderottis and how Hippocrates studied the causes of this disease in science rather than in religion. Taddeo Alderotti also led Hippocrates ' practice again to inform the medicine at the patient's bedside.
Taddeo Alderotti was an early advocate of serious medical study and practice. He tried to 1274-1288 to ensure that the city authorities extended the legal status of medical teachers and students to that of their colleagues in law school.
Among his books was the Consilia, a series of case studies that were presented in addition to medical reports on each case.
In addition, he is considered one of the founders of the Italian literary language.
Among his pupils were, inter alia, Tommaso del Garbo, Dino del Garbo, Gentile da Foligno, Bartolomeo da Varignana, Mondino dei Luzzi and Pietro Torrigiano Rustichelli. He indirectly influenced Pietro de Tussignana and Bavarius de Bavariis.
Works
- De conservatione sanitatis
- In Claudii Galen artem parvam Commentaries
- De virtutibus aquae vitae ( Of the virtues of the water of life )