Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn,

(born in Basel 1530, died in Cologne 1596)
was the most famous among all the admirers of Paracelsus; but he was a failed copy of the original, even though he lived where the latter had previously resided. * He was more of an astrological fraud and empiric (without true learning) than an honest doctor. ** One must be very surprised how Reinesius *** could hold this fraudulent charlatan in such high esteem. At most, one can grant him some merit in botany, the knowledge of which he—like almost all his medical science—owed primarily to the Basel doctor, Dr. Johann Huber.

• It is now the famous Wilhelm Haas type foundry.

** Acta med. Berolinenf. Medical Records of Berlin Dec. II, Vol. I. and D. I. C. W. Möhser’s contributions to the history of the sciences in the March of Brandenburg etc. Berlin, 1783, large 4to, where Thurneisser’s life is told in detail on pp. 55—198.

*** Variar. Lect. Various Readings p. 664.