Anton Schneeberger (1530,
Zurich - 13 March 1581,
Cracow) was a
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botanist
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, and book collector based in
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Life
Schneeberger began his studies at Basel under the doctor and natural scientist
Conrad Gessner
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. He later studied at Basel, before arriving at the
Jagiellonian University
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in
Cracow in 1553. Three years later he left for France, studying at Montpellier and Paris, where he earned the title of doctor of medicine and philosophy.
In 1559 Schneeberger returned to Poland. He kept an active travel schedule, however, visiting Lithuania and spending time at the university in
Königsberg
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. He returned to Cracow in 1561 and soon established himself among the local doctors and scholars. He counted
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' student
Jerzy Joachim Retyka and the German doctor and book collector
Matthias Stoius among his friends.
[Nierzwicki, 12-13.]
Schneeberg married twice. His first wife, Katarzyna, daughter of the royal doctor Jan Antonin, died young in 1569. His second wife, Anna, was the daughter of the wealthy apothecary Mikołaj Alantsee. They had one son together named Anton, who later became a doctor himself. The younger Anton studied in Padua, but died relatively young.
Works
* ''Catalogus stirpium latine et polonine conscriptus''. Cracow:
drukarnia Łazarzowa, 1557.
** One of the first works about the flora local to the region of Cracow.
* ''Catalogus medicamentorum simplicium sive evporiston pestilentiae ueneno aduersatium''. Zürich: Gesner, 1561
Digitzed by Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.* ''De multiplici salis usu libellus''. Cracow: Łazarz Andrysowicz, 1562
Digitized by Dolnośląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa.* ''De bona militum valetudine conservanda liber. Księga o zachowaniu dobrego zdrowia żołnierzy.'' Cracow: drukarnia Łazarzowa, 1564. Reprinted with additional material, Warsaw, 2008
Digitized by Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.* ''Medicamentorum facile parabilium adversus omnis generis articulorum dolores enumeratio''. Frankfurt:
Andreas Wechelus, 1580
Digitized by Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
See also
*
Simon Syrenius, ''Zielnik''
References
Notes
Bibliography
* Hajdukiewicz, L. "Schneeberger (Schneberger) Anton". In ''
Polski Słownik Biograficzny
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, vol. 35, no. 4, pp.568-71. Cracow, 1994.
* Hryniewiecki, "B. Anton Schneeberger (1530-1581) ein Schüler Konrad Gesners in Polen". ''Veröffentlichungen des Geobotanischen Institutes Rübel in Zürich'' 13 (1938): 1-64.
* Ilnicki, S. "Życie i działalność Antoniego Schneebergera". In A. Schneeberger, ''De bona militum...'', pp. viii-xii.
* Ilnicki, S., and R. A. Sucharski, "Zalecenia doktora Antoniego Schneebergera dotyczące snu i czuwania żołnierzy". ''Lekarz Wojskowy'' 69, no. 7 (1993): 414-18.
* Konopka, S. "Antoni Schneeberger i jego dzieło o higienie wojskowej." ''Archiwum Historii Medycyny''. XXVII, nos. 1-2 (1964): 49-54.
* Kośmiński, S. ''Słownik lekarzów polskich'', pp. 445-46. Warszawa, 1888.
* Koźluk, M. and Sz. Sułecki. "Une petite perle de Cracovie: la bibliothèque médicale d’Anton Schneeberger (1530-1581)". ''Histoire des sciences médicales''. XLVI, no. 4 (2012): 441–52.
* Nierzwicki, Krzysztof
"Warszawski egzemplarz ''De humani corporis fabrica'' Andreasa Vesaliusa (Bazylea 1555) ze zbiorów Biblioteki Narodowej: Przyczynek do dziejów recepcji anatomii wesaliańskiej w Polsce."
* Rostafiński, Józef. "Nasza literatura botaniczna XVI w oraz jej autorowie lub tłumacze". Cracow, 1888.
* Szostak, Jan. "Farmakognozja, farmacja galenowa i aptekarstwo w renesansowych zielnikach polskich". Warszawa, 2006.
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1530 births
1581 deaths
16th-century Latin-language writers
16th-century Polish botanists
Polish male non-fiction writers
16th-century Polish physicians
Polish male writers
Swiss emigrants to Poland