Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 364.5

THEODOR ZWINGER (1533-1588) Hippocratis coi Asclepiadeae gentis sacrae coryphaei viginti duo commentarii tabulis illustrati : Graecus contextus ex doctiss[imorum] vv. [vivorum] codicibus emendatus. Latina versio Jani Cornarii innumeris locis correcta. Sententiae insignes per locos communes methodice digestae. Theod. Zvingeri Bas. studio & conatu ... Episcopiorum opera atque impensa. 1579 First Edition [28], 594, [114] p. 33 cm.

Theodor Zwinger the Elder (August 2, 1533 – March 10, 1588) was a Swiss physician and humanist scholar. Zwinger studied at universities in Basel, Lyon, and Paris before taking a doctorate in medicine at the University of Padua. He joined the faculty of the University of Basel as a member of the consilium facultatis medicae from 1559. At Basel he held successively chairs in Greek (1565), Ethics (1571), and finally theoretical medicine (1580). Zwinger was the editor of the early encyclopedia Theatrum Humanae Vitae (editions 1565, 1571, 1586, 1604). The work is considered "perhaps the most comprehensive collection of knowledge to be compiled by a single individual in the early modern period” (Helmut Zedelmaier). Text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns with numerous attractive historiated woodcut initials. The commentary is arranged in a tabular format. The Hippocratic Corpus in Greek and Latin – First edition of the commentary of Swiss Physician Theodor Zwinger, who gives “almost as an aside a panoramic overview of all European research on Hippocrates in those years” (Hieronymus). The Latin translation is that of Janus Cornarius.

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Cited references: Wellcome I #3252; NLM 16th c. #4805

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