Article ID: CBB987405924

Sharing the Knowledge at Habsburg Medical Faculties in the Baroque Era: The Case of Jan František Löw’s Reading List for Medical Students in Prague (1693) (2023)

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In 1693, professor Jan František Löw von Erlsfeld published a reading list for the students of medicine at Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. The list records over 350 authorities from Aristotle to Johann Zwelfer and offers a unique insight into the structure of medicine and knowledge-sharing. It also points towards the fact that the Prague faculty was developing intellectual connections with other schools within the Habsburg domain. This paper will provide an analysis of the list, discuss the context in which it was created, and compare it with contemporary examples of the same genre from Copenhagen and Leiden. Additionally, it will explain how Prague university drew inspiration, first from Vienna and later from Innsbruck, to inform and modernize its medical curriculum during the Baroque period.

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Authors & Contributors
Aspaas, Per Pippin
Atalic, Bruno
Bečvářová, Martina
Casper, Stephen T.
Daxelmüller, Christoph
Doan, Laura
Journals
Agricultural History
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Gender and History
Publishers
Springer International Publishing
Brill
University of Pittsburgh Press
Emory University
Concepts
Cross-national comparison
Knowledge circulation
Medicine
Medical education and teaching
Curriculum change
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
People
Dee, John
Galen
Ganot, Pierre Benjamin Adolphe
Hartmann, Johannes
Hell, Maximilian
Lewis, Gilbert Newton
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Prague (Czechia)
United States
Vienna (Austria)
Europe
Germany
Bohemia
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
Univerzita Karlova
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
Oxford University
Rockefeller Foundation
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