Georg Pictorius of Villingen (c. 1500 – 1569) was a

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

and an author of the German Renaissance. He became active as a physician from 1540 in Ensisheim. In his book on magic, he condemns

witchcraft Witchcraft is the use of Magic (supernatural), magic by a person called a witch. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic to inflict supernatural harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread meanin ...

, endorsing the witch-trials of his time: "if the witches are not burned, the number of these furies swells up in such an immense sea that no one could live safe from their spells and charms." (Midelfort p. 59) His gynecological ''Frauenzimmer'' gives cosmetic advice for women, from the suppression of unpleasant scents to the shaping of their bosom (Walter, p. 372f.) works: *1532 Theologia mythologica *''Isagoge'', the fourth book in the collection published as the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa *1555 '' Lasz Büchlin'', on bloodletting *1560 '' Baderbüchlin'', on balneotherapy *''Von den Gattungen der Ceremonialmagie (Goetie)'' (Eng. ''Of the Kinds of

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( Goetia)''), ed. '' Das Kloster'' (1846)

References

*Tillmann Wertz, ''Georgius Pictorius (1500-1569/73). Leben und Werk eines oberrheinischen Arztes und Humanisten.'' Heidelberg: Palatina Verlag 2006. *Midelfort, H. C. Erik, ''Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684: The Social and Intellectual Foundations'' (1972), . *Tilmann Walter, ''Unkeuschheit und Werk der Liebe: Diskurse über Sexualität am Beginn der Neuzeit in Deutschland'' (1998), . *Rachel Darmon : "Georgius Pictorius à la recherche d'un langage mythographique", in ''Acta Conventus Neo-latini Uppsaliensis. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Neo-latin Studies, Uppsala, 2009,'' dir. Astrid Steiner-Weber, Brill, 2012, p. 341-351. *Rachel Darmon : « La mythographie comme écriture de la ''variatio'' : métamorphoses poétiques de l’unité divine au XVI^e siècle », in ''La'' variatio''. L’aventure d’un principe d’écriture, de l’Antiquité au XXIe siècle.'' ''Actes du colloque tenu à l’Université de Clermont-Ferrand, 25-27 mars 2010'', dir. Hélène Vial, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014, p. 429-439. *Rachel Darmon : « Figuration, fable et théologie dans les traités de mythographie », in ''Fable/ Figure. Récit, fiction, allégorisation à la Renaissance'', dir. Trung Tran, RHR : Revue de l’association d’études sur la Renaissance, l’Humanisme et la Réforme, n° 77, Lyon, décembre 2013, p. 31-50. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pictorius, Georg 1500s births 1569 deaths People from Villingen-Schwenningen German gynaecologists German male writers German occult writers Witch hunters Witchcraft in Germany

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