SIDE NOTE- The People Who Understood Paracelsus

Read Anna's book to gain for yourself the benefit of her work, the work of all those she benefited from and become one of the people who understood Paracelsus. These people on this list did their work for us . Paracelsus himself lived in a time of collapse and change and gave his great work to the future, for the future time of collapse and change that is always part of the cycle. The records are there for us if we are willing to read and teach the great works.

BROWNING, Robert 1812 - 1889

This man was a well known poet playwright in England during the Victorian era. But he is listed here because he wrote a work, a poetry, on Paracelsus when few knew of or understood the work of the 16th century medical doctor and humanitarian. Browning shed light on the lack of understanding surrounding Paracelsus.

Browning's work is found here, though consider that it was not written for the audience we are today. Image below relays Anna Stoddart's words on Browning.

SUDHOFF, Karl (1853-1938)

Paracelsus scholars are much indebted to Karl Sudhoff, the late Leipzig professor of the history of medicine. With his comprehensive Versuch einer Kritik der Echtheit der Paracelsischen Schriften in two volumes (1894, 1898), where he describes the Paracelsian prints and manuscripts, he laid down a solid foundation for Paracelsus studies and continues to be referenced today.

Sudhoff implemented in his edtion only sparse textual criticism and no explanatory notes. Not withstanding these shortcomings, the Sudhoff Edition remains an important presentation of Paracelsus's natural-philosophic and medical works . -source Zurich Paracelsus Project

The beginning use of the title 'Paracelsus' has not been firmly established. Some say it was to denote a rank 'above Celsus'. It is established that Paracelsus himself did not use this title on his own writings, he used his name, Theophrastus von Hohenheim .

For anyone interested in the Roman history of Celesus and the only fragments of work that remain from him, a translation of the eight books of Aulus Cornelius Celsus who lived during the last century BC, and first century AD may be found here

A copy of the book by R Julius Hartmann is found here in German. As I was entering the last pieces of information in this side note on the book by Jolande Jacobe published in German 1942, English 1951, I found in her bibliography which she provided at the end of the book, the reference to the work of both Franz Hartmann and R Julius Hartmann.

The book by Franz Hartmann MD - The life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim known by the name of Paracelsus : and the substance of his teachings concerning cosmology, anthropology, pneumatology, magic and sorcery, medicine, alchemy and astrology, philosophy and theosophy

Here are the gossamer articles on Franz Hartmann's book .

In the January 1908 edition of Occult Review an autobiography of Franz Hartmann was published.

On the internet archive there are two different Franz Hartmann individuals who appear to be crossed reference incorrectly sometimes. Dr. Franz Hartmann 1796-1853 and Franz Hartmann MD 1835-1912.

Karl Hartmann was the father of Franz Hartmann born 1835, and Karl was also a medical doctor in Germany. Perhaps the other Franz Hartmann was an uncle or related in some way.

Franz Hartmann'swork tells us - "Paracelsus wrote personally not a great deal. He
usually dictated that which he desired to be put into writing to his disciples. The greatest part of his works is therefore in the handwriting of his disciples. Few of
the works of Paracelsus were printed during his lifetime. Those that were printed consist of his seven books,"De Gradibus et Compositionibus Receptorum et Naturalium,
Basel, 1526; and of his " Chirurgia Magna,'• printed at Ulm, 1536. The rest of his writings did not become known publicly until after his death, and it is to be regretted that his disciples and followers such as Adam von Bodenstein, Alexander von Suchten, Gerard Dorn, Leonard Thurneyssen, Peter Severious, Oswald Crall, Melchior Schennemann, and others delivered them in such a state of confusion to the printer, that frequently entire pages were missing , and it was very difficule to put those that were to be had into some order." Hartman included the complete, or complete at that time, list of the authenic writings, autographs

Hartmann's book included much of what was later included in the material of other writers and students, but Hartmann's work does not seem to have been for academia, and his style of writing is not academic or complex. The images below are snippets from the book.

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And he included an explanation of terms

Moving on to Professors Franz Strunz from Leipzig edited an edition of Paracelsus' works in their original German with notes of explanation, and both the “Paragranum” and the “Paramirum” have appeared.
These men are pioneers in Paracelsian research and their work is attracting many students. "

I have only found these books in German

but here is a link to a website that offers some english translation.

This could have been the book referred to by Anna Stoddart- But then in 1895 a book on the history of medicine was published and included what she believed to be slander against the true work and character of Paracelsus. It was then that she made the committment to write his story herself, and include all the research that had been accomplished and was still being overlooked.

Thirty years after the publication of The Life of Paracelsus, Theophrastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541 by Anna Stoddart another presentation of Paracelsus appeared.

Jolande Jacobi's work was originally published in German as Theophrastus Paracelsus: Lebendiges Erbe, by Rascher Verlag, Zurich, 1942, and in 1951 was published in London translated to English as PARACELSUS: SELECTED WRITINGS

A description of Jacobi's book reads

"This richly illustrated anthology presents in modernized language a selection of the moral thought of a man who was not only a self-willed genius charged with the dynamism of an impetuous and turbulent age but also in many ways a humble seeker after truth, who deeply influenced C. G. Jung and his followers." from the website of Princeton University Press.

Jolande Jacobi (1890–1973) was born in Budapest Hungary, lived in Zurich Switzerland, was a psychologist and a long time associate of Carl Jung. Her work is valuable but also a time away from those who seemed actually to understand Paracelsus. Perhaps her understanding of Jung over influenced her understanding of Paracelsus. Until recent decades this work was one of the few book store sources on Paracelsus to be found in English .

One of the core values of her book is the Key To Sources she included, the nine pages listing the materials and authors gives us familiar names. She also included a glossary in her work. I have found it interesting to compare the explanation of the terms of Paracelsus over the years. For example Hartmann gives us this explanation for the ASTRAL BODY.- "The invisible ethereal body of man or of any other thing; the physical form being merely the material expression of the astral body, which builds up the external form." Jacobe offers us ASTRAL BODY "The sidereal body in man. (Cf. ASTRUM, BODY.)"