Johannes Hartlieb (born ca. 1410, died 18 May 1468) was a physician of Late Medieval Bavaria, probably of a family from Neuburg an der Donau. He was in the employment of Louis VII of Bavaria and Albert VI of Austria in the 1430s, and of Albert III of Bavaria from 1440, and of the latter's son Sigismund from 1456. In 1444, he married Sibilla, possibly the daughter of Albert and Agnes Bernauer Hartlieb wrote a compendium on herbs in ca. 1440, and in 1456 the puch aller verpoten kunst, ungelaubens und der zaubrey (book on all forbidden arts, superstition and sorcery) on the artes magicae, containing the oldest known description of witches' flying ointment. Hartlieb also produced German translations of various classical authors (Trotula, Macrobius, Gilbertinus, Muscio). The geographic region and Free State of Bavaria (German:  ), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... Neuburg an der Donau, literally Neuburg on the Danube river, is a town which is the capital of the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district in the state of Bavaria in Germany. ... Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria Duke Louis VII of Bavaria (20 December 1365–1 May 1447,Burghausen) (German: Ludwig VII der Bärtige , Herzog von Bayern), since 1413 Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt. ... Albert VI (born December 12, 1418 in Vienna, died December 2, 1463 in Vienna) was a Habsburg Archduke and son of Ernest the Iron. ... Duke Albert III of Bavaria-Munich (* 27. ... Sigismund of Bavaria (1439 - 1501) was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty. ... Agnes is a solitaire card game which is a variant of the very popular game Klondike. ... Flying ointment, also known as witches flying ointment, green ointment, magic salve and lycanthropic ointment, is a hallucinogenic ointment said to be used by witches in the Early Modern period. ... Trotula of Salerno (ca. ... Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Roman grammarian and philosopher, flourished during the reigns of Honorius and Arcadius (395-423). ...

Works:

• onomancy (18 mss., Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch CPG 832, CPG 408)
• das puch aller verpoten kunst, ungelaubens und der zaubrey, 1450s, CPG 478, 78 foll. (in the hand of Clara Hätzlerin), 1465, ed. Eisermann and Graf (1989).
• Kräuterbuch (herbology), ed. Speta, Graz (1980).
• Chiromantia, 1448, printed as a Woodblock print in the 1470s, ed. Weil, München (1923).
• Trotula and de secretis mulierum, 1450s, CPG 480 ed. Bosselmann, Würzburg (1985).
• translation of Caesarius von Heisterbach's dialogus miraculorum, ed. 1929.
• sand Brandons buch (the journey of Saint Brendan), printed by Anton Sorg, Augsburg, ca. 1480.
• 'de amore' deutsch, translation Andreas Capellanus' de amore, ed. Karnein, München (1970), Berlin (1979).
• Alexander Magnus, translation of the Alexander Romance, 1444, printed by Anton Sorg, Augsburg (1480), Martin Schott, Strassburg (1488).
• De mansionibus, CPG 6

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References

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• Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie vol. 10, 670ff.
• F. Fürbeth, Johannes Hartlieb, Untersuchungen zuu Leben und Werk, Niemeyer, Tübingen (1992).
• W. Schmitt, Hans Hartliebs mantische Schriften und seine Beeinflussung durch Nikolaus von Kues, Diss. Heidelberg (1962).