Stephan Michelspacher

Stephan Michelspacher was a Tyrolean printmaker active in Augsburg during the early seventeenth century.

Michelspacher was a paracelsian physician living in Tyrol. Alinda van Ackooy has suggested that as a Lutheran he left Tyrol in around 1613 owing to the Catholic Renewal promoted by the Habsburgs. Augsburg also was a centre of the print industry, in which Michelspacher was to participate.

In Augsburg, on becoming a printmaker, he published Cabala, Spiegel der Kunst und Natur: in Alchymia in 1615. The book is noted for its selection of hermetic inspired prints.

He collaborated with Johann Remmelin on an anatomical work, Pinax microcosmographicus.

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