Joseph Duchesne
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Joseph Duchesne or du Chesne (Quercetan, Latin Josephus Quercetanus) (c.1544-1609) was a French physician. A follower of Paracelsus
, he is now remembered for important if transitional alchemical theories.
. He studied at Montpellier
, and then at Basle, where he received a medical diploma in 1573. During the 1570s he married at Lyon
Anne Tyre, grand-daughter of Guillaume Budé
, and became a Calvinist convert. He went into medical practice and was physician to Francis, Duke of Anjou.
He left Lyon in 1580 for Kassel
in Hesse
, and moved on to Geneva
where in 1584 he received right of citizenship. Having been elected there to the Council of Two Hundred in 1587, he undertook diplomatic missions to Bern, Basle, Schaffhausen
and Zurich
in the years 1589 to 1596. In 1594 he became a member of the Council of Sixty.
In 1598, following the Edict of Nantes
, he returned to France and became royal physician, attending Henry IV of France
. In 1601 Nicolas Brûlart de Sillery gave him a mission as envoy to the Swiss cantons. In 1604 he went to the court of Maurice of Hesse-Cassel where he gave scientific demonstrations in a laboratory set up for him.
Paracelsus
Paracelsus was a German-Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist....
, he is now remembered for important if transitional alchemical theories.
Life
He was born around 1544 in ArmagnacArmagnac (region)
The hilly countship of Armagnac , in the foothills of the Pyrenées between the Adour and Garonne rivers, is a historic countship of the Duchy of Gascony, established in 601 in Aquitaine...
. He studied at Montpellier
Montpellier
-Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....
, and then at Basle, where he received a medical diploma in 1573. During the 1570s he married at Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
Anne Tyre, grand-daughter of Guillaume Budé
Guillaume Budé
Guillaume Budé was a French scholar.-Life:Budé was born in Paris. He went to the University of Orléans to study law, but for several years, being possessed of ample means, he led an idle and dissipated life...
, and became a Calvinist convert. He went into medical practice and was physician to Francis, Duke of Anjou.
He left Lyon in 1580 for Kassel
Kassel
Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
in Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
, and moved on to Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
where in 1584 he received right of citizenship. Having been elected there to the Council of Two Hundred in 1587, he undertook diplomatic missions to Bern, Basle, Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen is a city in northern Switzerland and the capital of the canton of the same name; it has an estimated population of 34,587 ....
and Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
in the years 1589 to 1596. In 1594 he became a member of the Council of Sixty.
In 1598, following the Edict of Nantes
Edict of Nantes
The Edict of Nantes, issued on 13 April 1598, by Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic. In the Edict, Henry aimed primarily to promote civil unity...
, he returned to France and became royal physician, attending Henry IV of France
Henry IV of France
Henry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France....
. In 1601 Nicolas Brûlart de Sillery gave him a mission as envoy to the Swiss cantons. In 1604 he went to the court of Maurice of Hesse-Cassel where he gave scientific demonstrations in a laboratory set up for him.
Works
- 1576 : Sclopetarius
- 1603 : De priscorum philosophorum verae medicinae material
- 1604 : Ad veritatem hermeticae medicinae ex Hippocratis veterumque decretis ac therapeusi
- 1607 : Pharmacopea dogmaticorum
- 1619 : Le Ricchezze della riformata Farmacopea / del Giuseppe Quercetano. Nouamente di Favella Latina traportata in Italiana da Giacomo Ferrari. - Venetia : Guerigli, 1619. Digitalisierte Ausgabe der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf