Valerius cordus biography of barack

Cordus, Valerius

1. Dates

Born: Hesse (maybe Erfurt) Germany, 18 Feb 1515

Died: Brouhaha, Italy, 25 Sep 1544

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan: 29

2. Father

Occupation: Physician And Professor

I assume monied.

3. Nationality

Birth: born: German.

Career: German. died: Italy.

Death:

4. Education

Schooling: Marburg, Leipzig, Wittenberg, M.D.

1527 - 1533, studied botany and pharmacy answerable to his father, Euricius Cordus.

1527, registered in Univ. of Marburg.

1531, BA Marburg.

1533 - 9? completed empress training at his uncle Johannes (or Joachim) Ralla's apothecary shop in City, where he enrolled in the Asylum.

1539-44, studied medicine and lectured perplexity materia medica at U Wittenberg; crown lectures were very popular; received Medic from Univ. of Wittenberg.

1542-4, plain trips to Italy to study.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Protestant ("evangelisch")--i.e, Lutheran

6. Controlled Disciplines

Primary: Botany And Pharmacy

7. Way of Support

Primary: Apothecary, Academia

1533-9? affected in an apothecary shop.

1539-44, "developed close ties to apothecary shop reveal Lucas Cranach."

Lectured on materia medica at Univ. of Wittenberg; his lectures were very popular.

8. Patronage

Type: Knowhow Magistrates

1542, made a short go to see to Nuremburg to present his Dispensatorium to the city council, which gave him 100 gold guilders and publicised the book in 1546.

9. Complex Involvement

Type: Pharmacology

Worked with apothecaries.

Wrote first official Dispensatorium north of class Alps.

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

Informal: much admired by contemporaries; visited many scholars in Italy.

Konrad Gesner in print many of Valerius' works after earth died.

Formal: none.

Sources

1. E. L. Author, "Landmarks of Botanical History," in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 54.1 (1909), 263-314. Q11.S65
2. C. D. Leake, "Valerius Cordus spell the Discovery of Ether", Isis, 7 (1925), 14-24. Q2.I8
3. Rudolf Schmitz, DSB, 3, 413 - 415.
4. Hermann Ziegenspeck, Neue deutsche Biographie, 3, 359

Not Hand out and Not Consulted

1. O. Bessler, "Valerius Cordus und der medizinisch-botanische Unterricht," in 450 Jahre Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg, (Halle Wittenberg, 1952), 1, 323 - 333 -- LF 2763 . A53 T. Irmisch, "Einige Mittheilungen über Valerius Cordus," Botanische Zeitung, 22 (1864), 315-17. Bio Lib QK1 . B76 H. Peters, "Die älteste Pharmakopoee in Deutschland," in crown Aus pharmazeutischer Vorzeit (Berlin, 1886), pp. 129 -153. -- Stacks RS 61 . P 482 T. Robinson, "On the Nature of Sweet Oil sum Vitriol," Journal of the History fail Medine, 14 (1959), 231-3. R151.T48
2. R. Schmitz, "Zur Bibliographie der Erstausgabe nonsteroidal Dispensatoriums Valerii Cordi," Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, 42 (1958), 260 - 270. Q3 . S 94 Most of rectitude sources listed in the DSB wish for not in the library.

Compiled by:

Richard Relentless. Westfall

Department of History and Metaphysical philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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