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Paracelsus |
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| A restless spirit and visionary doctor – A man ahead of his time. |
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| 'All medication is in the earth...' |
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This great doctor, scientist, humanist and lay preacher was born the son of a doctor in Einsiedeln in Switzerland in 1493. At the age of nine he moved to Villach in Carinthia, where he spent the influencial years of his youth, but he left the city again at the age of sixteen and studied at several German universities as a journeyman scholar.
His work as a doctor took him all over Europe serving the common man and soldiers at war. He taught and studied, and settled in Salzburg for the first time in 1525. His involvement in the farmers’ uprisings was looked down upon by Salzburg’s sovereign at the time, Cardinal Matthäus Lang, and he was imprisoned for a short period. After his release Paracelsus left Salzburg to become a wandering medic. He returned to Salzburg again in 1540 and died there on the 24th September 1541. He was buried in the “Sebastiansfriedhof“. The restless genius wasn’t even 50 years old when he died, but the story of his teachings and deeds has survived half a millennium.
Paracelsus was ahead of his time in medical terms. He recognised that madness was an illness in contrast to his colleagues and the church who believed in spiritual confusion, possessed souls and the work of the devil. Paracelsus also developed a series of medicines in his laboratory, which had effects on both the body and the mind. The popularity of the thermal springs in Gastein can be traced back to one of his writings.
Salzburg was the nearest the wandering medicine man had to a permanent place of residence. He had three recorded places of abode: The Pfeifergasse 11, Platzl 3 and Kaigasse 8, known back then as the White Horse Inn, where Paracelsus dictated his last will and testament three days before he passed away. The Salzburger „Kurhaus“ in the Mirabell garden is named after him. There is a large statue of Paracelsus in front of the main entrance, which is the city’s way of honouring a man who was not only a progressive medic, but also one of the first Europeans who made a city, which was far less open-minded back then, one of the focal points of his life.
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