Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg explained
Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg (Daniel Stolcius) (1600–1660) was a Bohemian physician and writer on alchemy, a pupil of Michael Maier in Prague. http://www.levity.com/alchemy/sendi.html His name is often given as 'von Stolcenberg', i.e. from Stolzenberg, or 'von Stolcenbeerg'.
He is known for his 1624 emblem book Viridarium Chymicum,[1] a significant anthology http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/Eberly/AzothCommentary.html with sources in previous collections.[2] [3] It was followed in 1627 by the Hortulus Hermeticus.[4] [5]
References
- Adam McLean (editor), Patricia Tahil (translator) (1980) The Hermetic Garden of Daniel Stolcius
Notes
- The Alchemical Pleasure-Garden, German Chymisches Lustgartlein
- The 1622 Philosophia reformata of Johann Daniel Mylius, and work of Basilius Valentinus, in particular.
- According to John Manning, The Emblem (2002), Claude-François Menestrier's classification of Emblêmes Chymiques should apply to the book.
- The Hermetic Garden
- Stolcius, who studied at Oxford after fleeing from Bohemia in 1620, dedicated The Hermetic Garden to [Philip] Hainhofer, who was described as counsellor to the Duke of Pomerania. Ron Heisler, https://web.archive.org/web/20000420182646/http://geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1896/rootsrc.html
