Michael Maier
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 34
Top works
- Die Geographie des Menschen: Gespräche mit Peter Handke, Reiner Kunze, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker und Leonardo Boff (German Edition)
- Atalanta Fugiens, Hoc Est, Emblemata Nova de Secretis Naturae Chymica
- Subtle Allegory Concerning the Secrets of Alchemy
- Golden Tripod
- Atalanta Fugiens
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1940-09-11
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 626
- Total plays
- 10,166
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Michael Maier (1568–1622) was a German physician, a counsellor to Rudolf II Habsburg and a learned alchemist. Maier was born in Rendsburg, Holstein, in 1568. He studied philosophy and medicine at Rostock (1587), Frankfurt (Oder) (M.A. 1592), and Padua. He attained in 1596 a doctorate in medicine at Basel, and returned to Rostock to practice the medical profession. He also briefly (c. 1601) practised in Konigsberg and Danzig. Around this time he became interested in alchemy. <a href="https://www
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Family name
- Maier
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Rendsburg
- Place of death
- Magdeburg
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Educated at
- University of Rostock
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Native language
- German
- Field of work
- alchemy
- Image
- Michael Maier portrait.jpg
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- Commons category
- Michael Maier
- date of birth
- 1569-00-00
- date of death
- 1622-01-01
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- has works in the collection
- Wellcome Collection
- P8168
- Gaujac
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- Michael Maier
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Works in European collections
24 objects attributed to Michael Maier, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Examination fucorum pseudo-chymicorum detectorum et in gratiam veritatis amantium succincte refutatorum
Septimana philosophica qua aenigmata aureola de omni naturae genere à Salomone Israëlitarum sapientissimo rege, et Arabiae regina Saba, nec non Hyramo, Tyri principe, sibi invicem in modum colloquii proponuntur et enodantur ..
Silentium post clamores hoc est, tractatus apologeticus, quo caussae non solum clamorum seu revelationum Fraternitatis Germanicae de R. C. sed et silentii, seu non redditae ad singulorum vota responsionis traduntur
Michaelis Majeri Viatorium, hoc est, De montibus planetarum septem seu metallorum tractatus tam utilis, quam perspicuus, quo, ut Indice Mercuriali in trivijis, vel Ariadnêo filo in Labyrintho, seu Cynosurâ in Oceano Chymicorum errorum immenso, quilibet rationalis, veritatis amans, ad illum, qui in montibus sese abdidit De Rubea-petra Alexicacum, omnibus Medicis desideratum, investigandum, uti poterit
De circulo physico, quadrato hoc est, auro, eiusque virtute medicinali, sub duro cortice instar nuclei latente an & qualis inde petenda sit, tractatus haud inutilis
Arcana arcanissima hoc est Hieroglyphica Aegyptio-Graeca, vulgo necdum cognita, ad demonstrandam falsorum apud antiquos deorum, dearum, heroum, animantium & institutorum pro sacris receptorum, originem, ex vno Aegyptiorum artificio, quod aureum animi et corporis medicamentum peregit, deductam, vnde tot poetarum allegoriae, scriptorum narrationes fabulosae et per totam Encyclopaediam errores sparsi clarissima veritatis luce manifestantur, suaeque tribui singula restituuntur, sex libris exposita
Verum inuentum, hoc est Munera Germaniae, ab ipsa primitus reperta ... Tractatus peculiari euoluta & tradita
Michaelis Maieri Cantileane Intellectuals of phoenice redivivo or Intellectual songs on the resurrection of phenix
Michaelis Majeri, Com. Pal. Med. Doct. c. P.M. Tractatus posthumus, sive, Ulysses, hoc est Sapientia seu intelligentia, tanquam coelestis scintilla beautitudinis, quod si in fortunae corporis bonis naufragium faciat, ad portum meditationis patientiae remigio feliciter se expediat. Una cum annexis tractibus de Fraternitate Rosae Crucis
Symbola aureae mensae duodecim nationum
Lusus serius, quo Hermes sive Mercurius rex mundanorum omnium sub homine existentium, post longam disceptationem in Concilio Octovirali habitam, homine rationali arbitro, iudicatus & constitutus est
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