Michael Servetus Research Articles

Michael Servetus, theologian, physician and heretic: a reappraisal of his contribution to physiology and medicine.

Michael Servetus, theologian, physician and heretic: a reappraisal of his contribution to physiology and medicine.

Hero and heretic: William Osler's interest in Michael Servetus.

Hero and heretic: William Osler's interest in Michael Servetus.

Michael Servetus: Physician, Socinian and Victim

Michael Servetus: Physician, Socinian and Victim

Monuments, Martyrdom, and the Politics of Religion in the French Third Republic

The years around 1900 witnessed violent religious controversy in France, aggravated by political upheavals such as the Dreyfus Affair. This climate fostered a series of public monuments to historical figures identified as victims of confessional conflict in the past. Centering on three monuments to the sixteenth-century Spanish doctor and theologian Michael Servetus, by Jean Baffier, Joseph Bernard, and Clotilde Roch, this study examines the complex appropriation of former victims of religious intolerance by contending factions in the ideological battlefield of the Belle Epoque, and explores the broader connotations of the commemorative process during the Third Republic

The authorship of An impartial history of Michael Servetus.

The authorship of An impartial history of Michael Servetus.

Monument in Geneva Of Michael Servetus

To the Editor:— You write about the life and death of Michael Servetus in your issue of Dec 13, 1965. Servetus was burnt at the stake at Champel near Geneva on Oct 27, 1553, more than 400 years ago. The citizens of Geneva afterwards acknowledged their error in taking the life of this great Reformation figure, and his memory is preserved by them by an old stone monument which still stands in their city. During a recent visit, I saw the monument, and I was saddened to see that it was rather neglected— with a profuse growth of ramblers and rough saplings obscuring one side of the stone. Still, it is worthwhile to pay a visit to his memorial in Geneva.

The ‘Anitrinitarianism’ of John Campanus

John Campanus was one of the two most notorious Antitrinitarians of northern Europe in the second quarter of the sixteenth century. While, unlike the other, Michael Servetus, he does not seem to have had any lasting marked influence on Antitrinitarian developments, the stir he created among his comtemporaries was considerable. His stature in his own time is partially attested to, albeit negatively, both in a letter of Luther's in 1531 in which he identified Campanus as an adversary of the Son of God who blasphemed Christ even more than Arius had,2 and in the “mild” Melanchthon's opinion— given in response to a statement by Luther that the best way to deal with Campanus was to ignore him—that one should, rather, hitch him to the gallows. Somewhat more positive esteem, on the other hand, is intimated in a letter written to Cardinal Cervini in 1541 by the Catholic reformer Albert Pighius, whose opinion it was of one of Campanus' writings that no other writing of the time, either by a Catholic or a Lutheran, displayed greater erudition and ingenuity.

Michael Servetus, Humanist and Martyr, by John F. Fulton; with a Bibliography of his works and Census of their copies, by Madeline E. Stanton. Herbert Reichner, 8vo. $8.50. New York. 1953.

Michael Servetus, Humanist and Martyr, by John F. Fulton; with a Bibliography of his works and Census of their copies, by Madeline E. Stanton. Herbert Reichner, 8vo. $8.50. New York. 1953. - Volume 24 Issue 4

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REVIEWS Get access Michael Servetus, Humanist and Martyr. By JOHN F. FULTON. Pp. 98, 28 illustrations. New York: Herbert Reichner, 1953. H. J. MCLACHLAN H. J. MCLACHLAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume VI, Issue 1, April 1955, Pages 146–148, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/VI.1.146 Published: 01 April 1955

Book Review: Hunted Heretic: The Life and Death of Michael Servetus

Book Review: Hunted Heretic: The Life and Death of Michael Servetus

Michael Servetus, 1511–53

Michael Servetus Humanist and Martyr. By John F. Fulton. (With a bibliography of his works and census of known copies, by Madeline E. Stanton.) Pp. 98 + 9 plates. (New York: Herbert Reichner, 1953.) 8.50 dollars. Michael Servetus A Translation of his Geographical, Medical and Astrological Writings, with Introductions and Notes. By Charles Donald O'Malley. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 34.) Pp. 208 + 5 plates. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1953.) 3 dollars.

The contribution of Michael Servetus to the scientific development of the renaissance.

The contribution of Michael Servetus to the scientific development of the renaissance.

MICHAEL SERVETUS. A TRANLATION OF HIS GEOGRAPHICAL, MEDICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL WRITINGS WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES

MICHAEL SERVETUS. A TRANLATION OF HIS GEOGRAPHICAL, MEDICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL WRITINGS WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES

Michael Servetus By Professor Charles DonaldO'Malley.: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society. London: Lloyd‐Luke (Medical Books)1953. Pp. 208. Price 21s.

International Journal of Clinical PracticeVolume 8, Issue 5 p. 344-345 The Medical Bookman's Window Michael Servetus By Professor Charles Donald O'Malley.: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society. London: Lloyd-Luke (Medical Books) 1953. Pp. 208. Price 21s. A. P. Cawadias, A. P. CawadiasSearch for more papers by this author A. P. Cawadias, A. P. CawadiasSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 May 1954 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-1241.1954.tb01673.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume8, Issue5May 1954Pages 344-345 RelatedInformation

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Journal Article Reviews Get access JOHN F. FULTON, Michael Servetus, Humanist and Martyr. With a Bibliography of his Works and a Census of Known Copies by Madeline E. Stanton. Herbert Reichner, New York 21, N.Y., 1953 [ 1954], 8½×5½ in. Pp. 98, 28 illustrations. $8.50. F. N. L. POYNTER F. N. L. POYNTER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s5-IX, Issue 4, December 1954, Pages 277–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s5-IX.4.277 Published: 01 December 1954

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Journal Article Book Reviews Get access MICHAEL SERVETUS. A Translation of his Geographical, Medical and Astrological Writings with Introductions and Notes by Charles D. O'Malley. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society. 1953. 208 pp. $3.00. ROLAND H. O'BAINTON ROLAND H. O'BAINTON Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume IX, Issue 3, July 1954, Pages 378–379, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/IX.3.378 Published: 01 July 1954

The complementary careers of Michael Servetus: theologian and physician.

The complementary careers of Michael Servetus: theologian and physician.

Exhibition of Early Medical Manuscripts and Books at Edinburgh

A SELECTION of books and manuscripts, to illustrate a series of lectures by Dr. Douglas Guthrie on the history of medicine, has been placed on view in the Upper Library Hall of the University of Edinburgh. Included among manuscripts of the thirteenth century are beautifully written copies of the “Breviarium Medicum” of Serapion, a Syrian physician of the ninth century, and of Avicenna's “Canon of Medicine”, a favourite text-book, by the “Prince of Arabian Physicians”, which retained its popularity for many centuries and is said to be used still by native practitioners in India. There is also a fifteenth century manuscript of the “Regimen of Health of Salerno”, the best-known work of that famous school of medicine. It contains a full-page illustration of a medieval physician and one of his patients. A modern manuscript of much interest, on loan from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, is a volume of notes of lectures on surgery, delivered by Lister while he was at Glasgow, containing the first written account of his “antiseptic principle”. Among the printed books the greatest rarity is “Christianismi Restitutio”, published in 1553 by Michael Servetus, who suffered death by burning at the hands of Calvin. Although it is a theological work, it contains an account of the pulmonary circulation. Only two other copies of the book are known to exist. There are also on view first editions of “De Re Medicina” by Celsus, dated 1478 ; Vesalius' “Fabrica”, 1543; Harvey's “De Motu Cordis”, 1623 (from the library of Alexander Monro tertius) ; Willis's “Cerebri Anatome”, with illustrations by Sir Christopher Wren ; Jenner's “Inquiry into the Causes, etc., of Cowpox”, 1798; and of W. T. G. Morton's brochure on the use of ether as an anaesthetic, 1847. One of the show-cases contains a collection of illustrated herbals, and a catalogue, dated 1683, of the Physic Garden, Edinburgh, which occupied part of the present site of Waverley Station. The exhibition is remaining open, during library hours, until the end of June.

Calvin and Servetus

In the Genevan suburb of Champel, in an angle formed by the crossing of two unfrequented roads, stands a monument erected in the year 1903 by citizens of Geneva to commemorate an incident in the history of their community which for three centuries and a half has justly been regarded by critics as a blot upon its good name. The monument consists of a rough, irregular granite block about a man's height and resting upon a base of natural rock. On one side is the name of Michael Servetus, and on the other the following touching inscription:FILSRESPECTUEUX ET RECONNAISSANTSDE CALVINNOTRE GRAND REFORMATEURMAIS CONDAMNANT UNE ERREURQUI FUT CELLE DE SON SIECLEET FERMEMENT ATTACHESA LA LIBERTE DE CONSCIENCESELON LES VRAIS PRINCIPESDE LA REFORMATION ET DE L'EVANGILENOUS AVONS ELEVECE MONUMENT EXPIATOIRELE XXVII OCTOBRE MCMIIIThat such an inscription could be accepted as an expression of the best judgment of the modern Genevese in regard to this action of their fathers is evidence of a change of sentiment that has required all these three and a half centuries to come to its rights. During my travels two years ago I met a Genevan scholar of world-wide reputation in a field of knowledge that has kept him for the greater part of his active life far removed from the provincial feeling that might well cling to one who had never left the familiar scenes of early life. He was a member of an ancient Genevan aristocratic family, still in possession of a landed estate that for six generations at least had been in the hands of his fathers. In the course of conversation I remarked upon the admirable action of his fellow-citizens in showing, though tardily, their sense of the historic significance of Calvin's terrible act of justice. In so doing I meant to pay to Geneva the respectful tribute of my humble admiration. But the response was not such as I had anticipated. Not even yet was this Genevan aristocrat quite ready to admit that his fellow-citizens had done well to recognize thus publicly their regret that the man to whom they as well as he looked back as the creator of their redoubtable commonwealth had allowed himself this one human slip. Even modified as their expression of regret was, even though they had guarded the reputation of Calvin by ascribing his fault to the Spirit of the Age, still it seemed to this sturdy conservative that any such confession of error could be only another outburst of that radical temper which was slowly transforming the Geneva of Calvin into a community more in sympathy with the liberalism of the modern world.

Michael servetus

Journal Article Michael servetus Get access John E. B. Mayor John E. B. Mayor 1Sandford St. Martin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s5-XII, Issue 303, 18 October 1879, Pages 303–304, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s5-XII.303.303 Published: 18 October 1879