- Johannes Hartlieb
Johannes Hartlieb (born ca. 1410, died 18 May 1468) was a physician of Late Medieval
Bavaria , probably of a family fromNeuburg an der Donau . He was in the employment of Louis VII of Bavaria andAlbert VI of Austria in the 1430s, and of Albert III of Bavaria from 1440, and of the latter's son Sigismund from 1456. In 1444, he married Sibilla, possibly the daughter of Albert andAgnes Bernauer Hartlieb wrote a compendium on herbs in ca. 1440, and in 1456 the "puch aller verpoten kunst, ungelaubens und der zaubrey" (book on all forbidden arts, superstition and sorcery) on theartes magicae , containing the oldest known description of witches'flying ointment .Hartlieb also produced German translations of various classical authors (Trotula,Macrobius ,Gilbertinus ,Muscio ).Works:
*onomancy (18 mss.,Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/sammlung2/werk/cpg832.xml?docname=cpg832&pageid=PAGE0268 CPG 832] , [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/sammlung3/werk/cpg408.xml?docname=cpg408&pageid=PAGE0292 CPG 408] )
*"das puch aller verpoten kunst, ungelaubens und der zaubrey", 1450s, [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cpg478 CPG 478] , 78 foll. (in the hand ofClara Hätzlerin ), 1465, ed. Eisermann and Graf (1989).
*"Kräuterbuch" (herbology), ed. Speta, Graz (1980).
*"Chiromantia", 1448, printed as aWoodblock print in the 1470s, ed. Weil, München (1923).
*"Trotula" and "de secretis mulierum", 1450s, [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cpg480 CPG 480] ed. Bosselmann, Würzburg (1985).
*translation ofCaesarius von Heisterbach 's "dialogus miraculorum", ed. 1929.
*"sand Brandons buch" (the journey ofSaint Brendan ), printed by Anton Sorg, Augsburg, ca. 1480.
*" 'de amore' deutsch", translationAndreas Capellanus ' "de amore ", ed. Karnein, München (1970), Berlin (1979).
*"Alexander Magnus", translation of theAlexander Romance , 1444, printed by Anton Sorg, Augsburg (1480), Martin Schott, Strassburg (1488).
*"De mansionibus", [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cpg6 CPG 6]References
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Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie vol. 10, 670ff.
*F. Fürbeth, "Johannes Hartlieb, Untersuchungen zuu Leben und Werk", Niemeyer, Tübingen (1992).
*W. Schmitt, "Hans Hartliebs mantische Schriften und seine Beeinflussung durch Nikolaus von Kues", Diss. Heidelberg (1962).
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