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Cordus, Valerius
- 1. Dates
- Born: Hesse (maybe Erfurt) Germany, 18 Feb 1515
- Died: Rome, Italy, 25 Sep 1544
- Dateinfo: Dates Certain
- Lifespan: 29
- 2. Father
- Occupation: Physician And Professor
- I assume prosperous.
- 3. Nationality
- Birth: born: German.
- Career: German. died: Italy.
- Death:
- 4. Education
- Schooling: Marburg, Leipzig, Wittenberg, M.D.
- 1527 - 1533, studied botany and pharmacy under his father, Euricius Cordus.
- 1527, enrolled in Univ. of Marburg.
- 1531, BA Marburg.
- 1533 - 9? completed his training at his uncle Johannes (or Joachim) Ralla's apothecary shop in Leipzig, where he enrolled in the University.
- 1539-44, studied medicine and lectured on materia medica at U Wittenberg; his lectures were very popular; received MD from Univ. of Wittenberg.
- 1542-4, made trips to Italy to study.
- 5. Religion
- Affiliation: Protestant ("evangelisch")--i.e, Lutheran
- 6. Scientific Disciplines
- Primary: Botany And Pharmacy
- 7. Means of Support
- Primary: Apothecary, Academia
- 1533-9? worked in an apothecary shop.
- 1539-44, "developed close ties to apothecary shop of Lucas Cranach."
- Lectured on materia medica at Univ. of Wittenberg; his lectures were very popular.
- 8. Patronage
- Type: City Magistrates
- 1542, made a short visit to Nuremburg to present his Dispensatorium to the city council, which gave him 100 gold guilders and published the book in 1546.
- 9. Technological Involvement
- Type: Pharmacology
- Worked with apothecaries.
- Wrote first official Dispensatorium north of the Alps.
- 10. Scientific Societies
- Memberships: None
- Informal: much admired by contemporaries; visited various scholars in Italy.
- Konrad Gesner published many of Valerius' works after he died.
- Formal: none.
- Sources
- E. L. Greene, "Landmarks of Botanical History," in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 54.1 (1909), 263-314. Q11.S65
- C. D. Leake, "Valerius Cordus and the Discovery of Ether", Isis, 7 (1925), 14-24. Q2.I8
- Rudolf Schmitz, DSB, 3, 413 - 415.
- Hermann Ziegenspeck, Neue deutsche Biographie, 3, 359
- Not Available and Not Consulted
- 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 his Aus pharmazeutischer Vorzeit (Berlin, 1886), pp. 129 -153. -- Stacks RS 61 . P 482 T. Robinson, "On the Nature of Sweet Oil of Vitriol," Journal of the History of Medine, 14 (1959), 231-3. R151.T48
- R. Schmitz, "Zur Bibliographie der Erstausgabe des Dispensatoriums Valerii Cordi," Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, 42 (1958), 260 - 270. Q3 . S 94 Most of the sources listed in the DSB are not in the library.
- Compiled by:
- Richard S. Westfall
- Department of History and Philosophy of Science
- Indiana University
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