Valentinus Lublinus

Valentinus Lublinus, also known as Walenty Lublin,[1] was a 16th-century Polish physician and editor of medical texts. He was a student of Johannes Baptista Montanus at the University of Padua, and collected, edited and published several volumes of his teacher's lectures[2] two years after Montanus's death.[3] One of these volumes was "explanations" of Galen, published in 1556.[4]

The surname Lublinus indicates that he was from Lublin, a center of literary and intellectual activity during the Polish Renaissance. Lublinus's Latinized name also sometimes appears with the cognomen Polonus, an additional toponym to indicate that he was from Poland.

References

1. Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico
2. Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico search results; Bibliografia polska (Kraków, 1906) vol. 21, pp. 537–540 online.
3. Gianna Pomata, "The Uses of Historia in Early Modern Medicine," in Historia: empiricism and erudition in early modern Europe (MIT Press, 2005), p. 144, note 110.
4. In artem parvam Galeni explanationes: Ian Maclean, Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of Learned Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 359.

Further reading

• V. Nutton, "The Reception of Fracastoro's Theory of Contagion: The Seed That Fell among Thorns?" Osiris 6 (1990) 196–234.

External links

Editions of Montanus by Lublinus include:

• De excrementis[1]
• In artem parvam Galeni explanationes[2]
• Consultationum medicinalium centuria prima[3]