Adam von Bodenstein

Adam von Bodenstein (1528–1577) was a Swiss Paracelsian alchemist and physician. He was born in Karlstadt, Switzerland and died of the plague in Basel. His father, Andreas Rudolph Bodenstein von Karlstadt, was a prominent theologian and early Protestant opponent of Martin Luther.

As the guiding force of early German Paracelsianism, Bodenstein published over forty Paracelsian titles from 1560, which had a tremendous influence on the later development of Paracelsianism. Since he published these texts without the knowledge of the Basel medical faculty, he was expelled from "Facultet und Consilio“ of the Basel University. Bodenstein also became, with Gerhard Dorn, Johannes Oporinus, and Michael Toxites, the most influential translator of the works of Paracelsus.

Additionally Bodenstein translated the following from German to Latin:

• Giambattista della Porta Magia naturalis
• Opus Chyrurgicum
• Onomasticon Paracelsicum.

References

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

• Biography of Adam von Bodenstein
• Kibre, Pearl (1970). "Adam of Bodenstein". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 49–50. ISBN 0684101149.