About Johannes Pharamund Rhumelius
Lived 1597 – 1661 (aged 63–64). Johannes Pharamund Rhumelius was a physician, alchemist, mathematician, writer and opinion journalist.
Johannes Pharamond Rhumelius (1597–1661) was a German alchemist and physician, and a contemporary of Jan Baptist van Helmont. He was born in Neumark and died in Nuremberg.
He is chiefly notable for his works on alchemical medicine, Opuscula Chemico-Magico-Medica (Noremburgse, 1635), Medicina Spagyrica Tripartita (1648), the Compendium Hermeticum (1635) and the Compendium fortificatorium (1632).
His Spagyric Medicine also appeared in German translation as Medicina Spagyrica oder spagyrische Artzneykunst (Frankfurt, 1662), and in a French edition: Médecine spagyrique (1648).
He is described as the son of the doctor John Conrad Rhumelius, a Catholic, a "discípulo de Paracelso," and he also wrote under the pseudonym of "Solomon Raphael."
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Who was Johannes Pharamund Rhumelius?
German physician
When was Johannes Pharamund Rhumelius born?
Johannes Pharamund Rhumelius was born in 1597 in Neumark.
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Johannes Pharamund Rhumelius died in 1661 in Nuremberg.
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Johannes Pharamund Rhumelius was a physician, alchemist, mathematician, writer and opinion journalist.
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