Lékař a humanista Tomáš Jordán z Klausenburgu a jeho působení na Moravě
| Title in English | Physician and humanist Thomas Jordan of Klausenburg and his activity in Moravia |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Next year will mark the 440th anniversary of the death of the important early modern physician and humanist Thomas Jordan of Klausenburg (1540-1586), who spent much of his life in Brno and was the first to hold the position of Moravian provincial physician (protomedicus Moraviae). After studying for many years at the leading universities of Europe, he not only became a renowned physician, but also fulfilled the ideal of a humanist scholar through the breadth of his interests: he spoke several languages, studied history, geography and numismatics in addition to his medical practice, and cultivated a lively correspondence with influential personalities of his time. He is the author of several writings on epidemiology and balneology, for which he has become well known outside Central Europe. Particularly noteworthy is his description of a plague that appeared in Brno at Christmas 1577 and within three months sickened approximately 200 people in the city and its immediate surroundings. |