Johann Nikolaus Stupanus (born Johann Nikolaus Stuppa; 1542–1621) was an Italian-Swiss physician, known also as a translator. He was the father of

Emmanuel Stupanus Emmanuel Stupanus (born Emmanuel Stuppan; December 13, 1587 – February 26, 1664) was a Switzerland, Swiss physician and professor in Basel. Life and work Emmanuel Stupanus was born in Basel, Switzerland. He was the son of Johann Nicolaus Stupa ...

(1587–1664).

Life

He was originally from

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, and joined the faculty of medicine at the

University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis'', German: ''Universität Basel'') is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universit ...

. He taught theoretical medicine there from 1589 to 1620 and developed a systematic medical

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Work

Stupanus wrote an introduction to the second edition (1581) of ''

The Prince ''The Prince'' ( it, Il Principe ; la, De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals. The general theme of ''The ...

'' by

Niccolò Machiavelli Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( , , ; 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527), occasionally rendered in English as Nicholas Machiavel ( , ; see below), was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. ...

: it was a Latin translation by Silvestro Tegli and published at Basel by Pietro Perna, both Italian Protestants in exile and followers of

Caelius Secundus Curio Celio Secondo Curione (1 May 1503, in Cirié – 24 November 1569, in Basel) (usual Latin form Caelius Secundus Curio) was an Italian humanist, grammarian, editor and historian, who exercised a considerable influence upon the Italian Reformation. ...

(whose panegyric oration Stupanus had given at Basel in 1570Published in J.G. Schelhorn, ''Amoenitates Literariae'' XIV (1730-1731)
pp. 325-402
). Stupanus committed a provocation by dedicating the work to the Catholic bishop

Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee (11 May 1542 – 18 April 1608) was a Bishop of Basel and a leader in the Counter-Reformation in the region around Basel. Early history He was born at Rosenberg Castle, the son of William, Prince-abbot of St ...

, and for a time was deprived of his teaching post. In 1588 a Latin translation of Machiavelli's ''

Discourses on Livy The ''Discourses on Livy'' ( it, Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, ) is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (c. 1517) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli, best known a ...

'' by Stupanus himself was published.

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