Celebration of a military doctor : an unknown poem by Johannes Gregor Macer Szepsius (ca. 1530 – after 1579)

František Šimon; Florian Steger

doi:10.5817/GLB2022-2-9

Celebration of a military doctor : an unknown poem by Johannes Gregor Macer Szepsius (ca. 1530 – after 1579)

Vol.27,No.2(2022)

František Šimon Florian Steger

https://doi.org/10.5817/GLB2022-2-9

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.77374

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Abstract

Johannes Gregor Macer Szepsius (ca. 1530 – after 1579) wrote an epigram in praise of his friend Anton Schneeberger (1530–1581) and a celebratory poem on his genealogy, both appearing in Schneeberger's most famous book, De bona militum valetudine conservanda [On the Good Health of Soldiers] in 1564. However, the poem praising Schneeberger's ancestry appears only in the printed version of the book; a surviving manuscript copy of the work in the Palace Library in Ansbach, Germany, features a paean in celebration of the military doctor instead. From a literary perspective, the poem does not surpass the standard level of occasional poetry of this period. Since it is a celebratory poem, the high regard for the doctor is expressed there and this stance contradicts the criticism of the status of the medical profession found in Macer's other works.

Keywords:
Latin humanistic poetry; Gregor Macer Szepsius; image of a doctor

Pages:
137–144

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