Paracelsus self-identifies as Swiss (ich bin von Einsidlen, dess Lands ein Schweizer) in grosse Wundartznei (vol. 1, p. 56) and names Carinthia as his "second fatherland" (das ander mein Vatterland). Karl F. H. Marx, Zur Würdigung des Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1842), p. 3.
C. Birchler in Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 52 (1868),
9f.
A letter sent in 1526 from Basel to his friend Christoph Clauser, physician in Zürich, one of the oldest extant documents written by Paracelsus, is signed Theophrastus ex Hohenheim Eremita.
Karl F. H. Marx, Zur Würdigung des Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1842), p. 3.
The von Hohenheim arms showed a blue (azure) bend with three white (argent) balls in a yellow (or) field (Julius Kindler von Knobloch, Oberbadisches Geschlechterbuch vol. 1, 1894, p. 142Archived 24 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine), i.e. without the border. Franz Hartmann, Life and Doctrines (1887), p. 12 describes the
arms shown on the monument in St Sebastian church, Salzburg as "a beam of silver, upon which are ranged three black balls".
C. Birchler in Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 52 (1868),
9f.
A letter sent in 1526 from Basel to his friend Christoph Clauser, physician in Zürich, one of the oldest extant documents written by Paracelsus, is signed Theophrastus ex Hohenheim Eremita.
Karl F. H. Marx, Zur Würdigung des Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1842), p. 3.
Werneck in Beiträge zur praktischen Heilkunde: mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der medicinischen Geographie, Topographie und Epidemiologie, Volume 3 (1836), 212–216Archived 26 March 2023 at the Wayback Machine.
Neues Journal zur Litteratur und Kunstgeschichte, Volume 2 (1799), 246–256.
F. A. Yates, Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972), p. 120.
Eugen Weber, Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages (2000), p. 86.
Müller-Jahncke, Wolf-Dieter, "Paracelsus" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 20 (2001), 61–64Archived 6 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
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Practica D. Theophrasti Paracelsi, gemacht auff Europen, anzufahen in den nechstkunftigen Dreyssigsten Jar biß auff das Vier und Dreyssigst nachvolgend, Gedruckt zu Nürmberg durch Friderichen Peypus M. D. XXIX.(online facsimile)Archived 12 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine
The sculpture shows an "Einsiedeln woman with two healthy children" (Einsiedler Frau mit zwei gesunden Kindern) as a symbol of "motherly health". A more conventional memorial, a plaque showing the portrait of Paracelsus, was placed in Egg, Einsiedeln, in 1910 (now at the Teufelsbrücke, 47°10′03″N8°46′00″E / 47.1675°N 8.7668°E / 47.1675; 8.7668).
The 1941 monument was harshly criticized as "dishonest kitsch" (verlogener Kitsch) in the service of a conservative Catholic "cult of motherhood" (Mütterlichkeitskult) by Franz Rueb in his (generally iconoclastic) Mythos Paracelsus (1995), p. 330.
The von Hohenheim arms showed a blue (azure) bend with three white (argent) balls in a yellow (or) field (Julius Kindler von Knobloch, Oberbadisches Geschlechterbuch vol. 1, 1894, p. 142Archived 24 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine), i.e. without the border. Franz Hartmann, Life and Doctrines (1887), p. 12 describes the
arms shown on the monument in St Sebastian church, Salzburg as "a beam of silver, upon which are ranged three black balls".
Practica D. Theophrasti Paracelsi, gemacht auff Europen, anzufahen in den nechstkunftigen Dreyssigsten Jar biß auff das Vier und Dreyssigst nachvolgend, Gedruckt zu Nürmberg durch Friderichen Peypus M. D. XXIX.(online facsimile)Archived 12 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine
Werneck in Beiträge zur praktischen Heilkunde: mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der medicinischen Geographie, Topographie und Epidemiologie, Volume 3 (1836), 212–216Archived 26 March 2023 at the Wayback Machine.
Neues Journal zur Litteratur und Kunstgeschichte, Volume 2 (1799), 246–256.
The von Hohenheim arms showed a blue (azure) bend with three white (argent) balls in a yellow (or) field (Julius Kindler von Knobloch, Oberbadisches Geschlechterbuch vol. 1, 1894, p. 142Archived 24 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine), i.e. without the border. Franz Hartmann, Life and Doctrines (1887), p. 12 describes the
arms shown on the monument in St Sebastian church, Salzburg as "a beam of silver, upon which are ranged three black balls".