Hartmann Schedel belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Hartmann Schedel as German historian, cartographer, physician and humanist (1440–1514).
Hartmann Schedel was born at Nuremberg in 1440. His recorded nationality is Nuremberg. He trained at Leipzig University.
Dissection returned in this period and overturned inherited anatomy, which had been copied without checking for centuries.
Among his principal contributions are Nuremberg Chronicle, Liber genealogiae et rerum familiarum and Opus de antiquitatibus cum epitaphiis. Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Nuremberg matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Hartmann Schedel died in 1514, aged 74. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Notable work: Nuremberg Chronicle
- Notable work: Liber genealogiae et rerum familiarum
- Notable work: Opus de antiquitatibus cum epitaphiis
