Georg Pictorius

Georg Pictorius of Villingen (ca. 1500-1569) was a physician and an author of the German Renaissance.He became active as a physician from 1540 in Ensisheim. In his book on magic, he condemns witchcraft, endorsing the witch-trials of his time: "if the witches are not burned, the number of these furies swells up in such an immense sea that no one could live safe from their spells and charms." (Midelfort p. 59) His gynecological "Frauenzimmer" gives cosmetic advice for women, from the suppression of unpleasant scents to the shaping of their bosom (Walter, p. 372f.)

works:
*1532 Theologia mythologica
*"Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa"
*1555 " Lasz Büchlin", on bloodletting
*1560 " Baderbüchlin", on balneotherapy
*"Von den Gattungen der Ceremonialmagie (Goetie)" on ceremonial magic (goeteia), ed. "Das Kloster" (1846)

References

*Midelfort, H. C. Erik, "Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684: The Social and Intellectual Foundations" (1972), ISBN 0804708053.
*Tilmann Walter, "Unkeuschheit und Werk der Liebe: Diskurse über Sexualität am Beginn der Neuzeit in Deutschland" (1998), ISBN 3110160854.

ee also

*Johann Weyer