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3 unusual facts about Paracelsus


Hohenheim

After the duke had acquired the former manor of the Bombast von Hohenheim family, minor nobility - with Theophrastus von Hohenheim called Paracelsus as its most notable member - in 1768, he gave it to his mistress Franziska Leutrum von Ertingen, including the title of a Reichsgräfin von Hohenheim.

Paracelsus

On Warehouse 13, Paracelsus (played by Anthony Head) is 'de-bronzed' in Season 4, Episode 18 entitled "Lost & Found".

Pfäfers

The old bath house with the well-known museum and the Paracelsus memorial is worth a visit.


Abraham von Franckenberg

His works show ideas drawn from many sources: from the Kabbalah, Paracelsian alchemy, medieval mysticism, the medieval 'heretics' of the Reformation, Spanish sixteenth-century Quietism, Lutheran mysticism and Pansophism.

Henri de Boulainvilliers

In 1683 Boulainvilliers wrote " l'Idée d'un Système Géneral de la Nature" based on his reading of Jan Baptist van Helmont and Robert Boyle, followed by "Archidoxes de Paracelsus, avec une préface sur les principes de l'art chimique".

John Fillian

Very few of his engravings exist, notably a portrait of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, published by P. Stent in 1658, a good work; a portrait of his master, Faithorne, from a drawing by himself; a copy of J. Payne's portrait of Paracelsus; ‘Dr. Michael,’ after Guido Reni; and the frontispiece to P. Heylyn's ‘Cosmography,’ published in 1669.

Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel

The building housed an important printing press owned by Johann Amerbach and Johann Froben, which attracted in the early 16th century the humanist Erasmus as well as the alchemist and doctor Paracelsus.

Soulcalibur Legends

Iska then went around the world looking for shelter, but all those that took him in eventually betrayed and used him, and then he studied under the famous alchemist Paracelsus who taught him much at Basel, until Iska disappeared, stealing Paracelsus's notes on the creation of false humans and was said to have made at least one successful artificial human.


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