1. Michael Maier was a German physician and counsellor to Rudolf II Habsburg.
11 Facts About Michael Maier
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Michael Maier was a learned alchemist, epigramist, and amateur composer.
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Michael Maier left Padua abruptly after getting involved in a fight, injuring the other party, and being arrested.
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Michael Maier was granted a coat of arms which depicted a bird, bonded together with a frog by a golden chain.
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Around this time, Michael Maier published an extremely limited print run of De Medicina Regia et vere Heroica, Coelidonia, including in it his autobiography.
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Michael Maier corresponded with Moritz of Hessen-Kassel, and visited Hessen-Kassel's brother-in-law, Count Ernst III of Holstein-Schauenburg.
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Michael Maier was a guest of Christoph Reinhard, Doctor of Laws and town syndic of Muhlhausen, to whom he later dedicated his book Atalanta Fugiens.
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Michael Maier personally dedicated copies to a number of notables, including the Bishop of Ely and Sir Thomas Smith of the East India Company.
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In 1619, Michael Maier became the physician of Landgrave Moritz of Hesse-Kassel.
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Michael Maier was involved in the Rosicrucian movement that appeared around this time, which afforded part of the matter of his Themis aurea.
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James Brown Craven, who gave detailed descriptions of the works above in his catalogue raisonne of Michael Maier, included the 1654 English translation of Lusus Serius: or, Serious Passtime.