Healers

Paracelsus

Physician and Alchemist

Citation Formats

General Reference

Medicine Atlas. "Paracelsus." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/paracelsus.

APA Style

Medicine Atlas. (n.d.). Paracelsus. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/paracelsus

BibTeX

@misc{medicineatlas-paracelsus,
  author = {Medicine Atlas},
  title = {Paracelsus},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/paracelsus},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance. This entry describes his medical facet; the same person is separately described on the family's divinity atlas for his theological writing.

Facts

Birth Yearthe subject's own account

1493 1

Birth Datethe subject's own account

1493-11-10 1

Death Yearthe subject's own account

1541 1

Death Datethe subject's own account

1541-09-24 1

Sources

1. Paracelsus (Wikipedia)

WikipediaLead section (entity-description)