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Leonhard Thurneysser

Leonhard Thurneysser (zum Thurn), also known as Thurneisser, (1531 in Basel - 1596 in Cologne) was a Swiss goldsmith, metallurgist, metallurgical engineer and scholar who served as personal physician at the court of Elector Johann Georg von Brandenburg. Thurneysser first learnt the goldsmith's trade and then worked under the professor of medicine Johannes Huber, who also introduced him to the art of herbalism. Although he was largely self-taught, he acquired extensive knowledge in the fields of healing, medicine, pharmacy and botany and was interested in mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy and mineralogy. Thurneysser set up his home, library, print shop and laboratories in the Grey Monastery in Berlin. He quickly became a wealthy man due to his self-created cures and obvious medical charlatanry, which he also practised as an alchemist and goldsmith. He also sold astrological calendars, horoscopes and talismans to protect against evil. He claimed to know places in the Mark Brandenburg where sapphires, rubies and emeralds could be found, and that the silt of the Spree contained gold. In his print shop, he produced fonts in a wide variety of alphabets, using German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew letters as well as those with Arabic characters. He set up the first natural science cabinet in Brandenburg, established a botanical garden and kept exotic animals on the farm.

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  Hermeneia. Das ist ein Onomasticum ...

  Thurneysser zum Thurm, Leonhard (1531-1596). "Hermeneia. Das ist ein Onomasticum ...". Berlin: Gedruckt im Grauen Kloster (i. e. Thurneysser), 1574. 12mo. (64) leaves. Half-parchment binding from the time.

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