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Zurich Paracelsus Project

The Zurich Paracelsus Project deals with the biography and works of the Swiss Renaissance physician, natural philosopher, astrologer and alchemist Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim (1493-1541), known as Paracelsus. He stood on the threshold from the Middle Ages to modern times and initiated a reform of medicine. Although going his own ways, he supported as a radical theologian the concerns of Martin Luther's and Huldrych Zwingli's church reformation.