Paracelsus
Paracelsus
I FEEL that I ought to begin this record with an apology to the manes of a great and fearless scholar, as earnest as he was honest, as…
Paracelsus: Theophrastus
Let us begin with the facts of his life. His name was Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, and he was the son of a doctor living in…
Paracelsus: Basel
His father moved in 1502 to Villach in Carinthia, where he practised medicine till his death in 1534. Theophrastus was a precocious boy…
Paracelsus: Augsburg
Then began a period of wandering which really lasted for the last dozen years of his life. This time was mainly one of learning in many…