Ercole Sassonia, Italian physician and scientist.
Ercole Sassonia, also known as Hercules de Saxonia, Hercules Saxonia Patavinus, or Hercules of Saxony (1551 – August 29, 1607), was an Italian
physician
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.
Sassoonia was born and died in
Padua
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, and was one of the great Italian clinicians of the Renaissance. He was educated in his hometown, and graduated with a degree in medicine from the
University of Padua
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. In 1575 he became the professor of medical practice at the university. Becoming famous as a teacher, he was invited to
Vienna
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by Emperor
Maximilian II, where he remained until 1600. His chief scientific works were in the fields of
diagnostics
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,
skin diseases, and
venereal diseases
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.
Chief works
* , Padova, Paulum Meiettum, 1591.
* , 1593.
* , Padova, Paulum Meiettum, 1597.
* , Padova, Officina Laurentii Pasquati, 1600.
* , 1607.
* , 1620.
Bibliography
* Castiglioni A.,: ''Storia della Medicina'', II, Mondadori, Milano, 1948.
* Pazzini A.,: ''Storia della Medicina'', I, Società Editrice Libraria, Milano, 1947, pp. 697, 698.
* Voce: ''Ercole Sassonia'' in Enciclopedia Italiana, XXX, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma, 1936, p. 896.
* Voce ''Ercole Sassonia'' in Enciclopedia Biografica Universale Treccani, XXVII, p. 250, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma, 2007.
External links
* Ercole Sassonia,
Prognoseion practicarum libri duo' (1620)
*Ercole Sassonia,
Opera Practica' (1639)
*Ercole Sassonia,
Luis venereae perfectissimus tractatus', (1597)
''Translated from the Italian Wikipedia''
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1551 births
1607 deaths
16th-century Italian physicians
University of Padua alumni
Academic staff of the University of Padua
