Martin Ruland

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dr Martin Ruland the elder (died 1603) was a follower of the physician Paracelsus. He compiled a dictionary of alchemy and wrote medical works.

His son, also named Martin Ruland (died 1611), was a physician at Regensburg during the 1590s and later at Prague. Ruland the younger was one of Emperor Rudolf II's retinue at the Habsburg court which during Rudolf's reign promoted the study of alchemy and astrology. Rudolf II conferred nobility upon Ruland in 1608. He was the editor of his father's works.

Ruland's 1612 Lexicon alchemiae (Dictionary of Alchemy) is cited by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung in his writings on alchemy.

[edit] Books

• Lapidis philosopici vera conficiedi ratio ("The True Method for Completing the Philosopher's Stone") (1606)
• "Defence of Alchemy" (1607)
• Progymnasmata alchemiae sive probemata chymica (1607)
• Lexicon alchemiae sive dictionarium alchemistarum ("Dictionary of Alchemy") (Frankfurt, 1612)