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450th anniversary of death - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1991 - 4.50 Shilling

Designer: Buchheim, Lucie

450th anniversary of death - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1991 - 4.50 Shilling


Theme: Health & Human
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date1991
Face Value4.50 
Colorblack red
Printing TypePhotogravure
Stamp TypeCommemorative
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1381
Chronological ChapterOOS-OE2
SID155042
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The physician, alchemist and philosopher Philip Theophrastus Bombastus of Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, was a genius far beyond the medical sphere. He was born in Einsiedeln, in today's Switzerland, in 1493, the son of a doctor. Together with his father, he came to Villach after the early death of his mother. After his medical studies, he worked as a miracle doctor in the service of various armies and settled 1524/25 in the city of Salzburg as a practicing physician. Paracelsus, who had been on the side of the socially weak since his early youth, showed sympathy for the rebellious peasants, miners and the oppressed Salzburg population during the Peasants' War of 1525 and therefore had to leave the country. He was only able to return to the city in 1540 after the death of the then sovereign prince, Cardinal Matthew Lang, where he died in September 1541.

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The physician, alchemist and philosopher Philip Theophrastus Bombastus of Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, was a genius far beyond the medical sphere. He was born in Einsiedeln, in today's Switzerland, in 1493, the son of a doctor. Together with his father, he came to Villach after the early death of his mother. After his medical studies, he worked as a miracle doctor in the service of various armies and settled 1524/25 in the city of Salzburg as a practicing physician. Paracelsus, who had been on the side of the socially weak since his early youth, showed sympathy for the rebellious peasants, miners and the oppressed Salzburg population during the Peasants' War of 1525 and therefore had to leave the country. He was only able to return to the city in 1540 after the death of the then sovereign prince, Cardinal Matthew Lang, where he died in September 1541..