Johann Nikolaus Stupanus

Italian-Swiss physician
Johann Nikolaus Stupanus
Guillaume Rondelet in 1545
Born
Johann Nikolaus Stuppa

1542
Pontresina
Died1621
Basel
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
InstitutionsUniversity of Basel
Notable studentsEmmanuel Stupanus

Johann Nikolaus Stupanus (born Johann Nikolaus Stuppa; 1542–1621) was an Italian-Swiss physician, known also as a translator.[1] He was the father of Emmanuel Stupanus (1587–1664).

Life

He was originally from Pontresina, and joined the faculty of medicine at the University of Basel.[1] He taught theoretical medicine there from 1589 to 1620[2] and developed a systematic medical semiology.[3]

Work

Stupanus wrote an introduction to the second edition (1581) of The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli: 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 (whose panegyric oration Stupanus had given at Basel in 1570[4]). Stupanus committed a provocation by dedicating the work to the Catholic bishop Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee, and for a time was deprived of his teaching post. In 1588 a Latin translation of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy by Stupanus himself was published.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Théodore de Bèze (2000). Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze. Librairie Droz. p. 48 note 11. ISBN 978-2-600-00401-5. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  2. ^ (in German) Alumni Basel: Medizinische Fakultät 1460-1900 Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ Ian Maclean (23 April 2007). Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of Learned Medicine. Cambridge University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-521-03627-6. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  4. ^ Published in J.G. Schelhorn, Amoenitates Literariae XIV (1730-1731), pp. 325-402.
  5. ^ Silvia Ruffo-Fiore (1990). Niccolò Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism and Scholarship. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 39–40. ISBN 978-0-313-25238-9. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
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