Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg

Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg, known in Latin as Daniel Stolcius, lived from 1600 to 1660 and was a Czech medical doctor who also wrote on alchemy. He was a pupil of Michael Maier in Prague, and his reputation rests on his writing more than on any recorded medical practice. His best known work is the 1624 emblem book Viridarium Chymicum, a significant anthology of alchemical emblems whose sources lie in earlier collections, so it gathers and recasts existing material rather than presenting wholly new pictures. It was followed in 1627 by a second book, the Hortulus Hermeticus. The source article is short and gives no details of his medical training, his career as a physician or his later life, so this entry records only what that lead supports: his dates, his nationality, his teacher and his two named works. He is placed with the physicians of the early modern period because the source calls him a medical doctor.