University of Zurich, Institute and Museum for the History of Medicine
 
The Zurich 
Paracelsus Project 
Project Director: Dr. Urs Leo Gantenbein, M.D., M.S. 
ursleo.gantenbein@mhiz.unizh.ch
 
 Deutsche Version The research on the life and teaching of Theophrastus of Hohenheim (1493/94-1541), called Paracelsus, offers a broad variety of problems still to be solved. In comparison to being well-known and having written the most voluminous 16th century professional literature after Luther, the scientific edition of his works remains badly neglected. About a quarter of them, mostly theological ones, are widely scattered around the world in manuscript form and still await their edition. For the ones being already edited there lacks the critical apparatus satisfying the modern standards, including a dictionary for the specific Paracelsian expressions and a general index.

The Zurich Paracelsus Project, being initiated in 1998, now offers a possible way how to manage the presenting problems. Microfilms of important manuscripts will be collected and united at a central place. The mass of the edited texts will be electronically recorded and analysed according to various criteria. On the basis of these preparatory work an index will be produced and building stones for a Paracelsus dictionary will be made available. A homepage will present the state of the art and will serve to coordinate further activities.

Selected works of the Huser edition will be made available on the internet. The remaining theological manuscripts will be scientifically edited as books toward the long awaited completion of Hohenheim's collected works.
 
 
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last updated 12.12.05 Urs Leo Gantenbein