It also comes to form the basis for the Reformation restructuring of his territory as can be seen in the founding of the University of Marburg as an alternative model to Wittenberg and of the territorial hospitals, his treatment of Jews and Anabaptists or his understanding of marriage. The ...
Paracelsus was educated in Ferrara, Italy. About 1515 he became a physician, and in 1526 he was named professor at the University of Basel and municipal physician for that city. He traveled widely throughout Europe. He was a strong opponent of scholastic medicine and the blind respect shown ...
He helped found the universities of Königsberg, Jena, and Marburg and reformed those of Greifswald, Wittenberg, Cologne, Tübingen, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Rostock, and Frankfurt an der Oder. His efforts earned him the title “Preceptor of Germany.”...