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Darrera modificació: 2025-06-23
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Soukup, Rudolf Werner, "Alchymistische Kunststücke am kaiserlichen Hof", dins: Lang, Sarah (ed.) - Fröstl, Michael - Fiska, Patrick, Alchemical Laboratories: Texts, Practices, Material Relics, Graz, Graz University Library Publishing, 2023, pp. 43-78.
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- In the last thirty years, numerous fundamental research reports have been published on alchemy in the environment of the Habsburg rulers of the 16th and 17th centuries, often revealing unexpected results. First and foremost, Ivo Purš' and Vladimír Karpenko's extensive anthology „Alchymie a Rudolf II.“ (2011/2016) should be mentioned, in particular the findings of Rafał T. Prinke regarding the alchemist Sendivogius employed at Rudolf's court and the findings of Carlos Gilly regarding the paracelsist Adam Haslmayr, who dedicated some of his manuscripts to Archduke Maximilian III. Some clichés now appear to be in urgent need of revision. In her diploma thesis of 2018, Birte Camen showed that the author of an 870-page manuscript of the ÖNB specially prepared for Emperor Rudolf II. with the title „Alchymische Kunst-Stücke in gutter Ordnungk“ was the physician Dr. Johann Hennemann (1555–1614). Some of the about 1000 recipes remind us of a modern textbook on inorganic chemistry. A completely unexpected picture of the exchange of ideas and information between Emperor Ferdinand III. and his brother Archduke Leopold Wilhelm during the period of the Thirty Years War emerged as the result of the edition of their correspondence by Renate Schreiber and Mark Hengerer. Conrad III. Ruess von Ruessenstein (1604–1668) was one of the alchemists of Emperor Ferdinand III. It was possible to elucidate the genealogy of this alchemist, who acquired Stermol Castle in Carniola in 1643. In his alchemical writings dedicated to Emperor Leopold I the alchemist and member of the city council of Laibach Baron Johann Friedrich von Rain (born in 1634) insists that a denial of the art of gold making is a crimen laesae maiestatis. The survey on alchemy at the court of Leopold I is completed by documents about the alchemist Wenzel Seiler from the Augustinian monastery in Brno, which could be exploited thanks to the help of Jaromír Hladík from the Moravian Archives in Brno. These documents let this alchemist – ennobled and highly esteemed by the Emperor for his spectacular alchemical performances – appear in a rather gloomy light.
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