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Paracelsus Biography

Born Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, he took the name Paracelsus later in life, meaning "superior to Celsus", an early Roman physician. He was also known by the pseudonym Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim.

Paracelsus was born at Einsiedeln, Switzerland, of a Swabian chemist father and a Swiss mother.

He was brought up in Austria and as a youth he worked in nearby mines as an analyst. He graduated with a baccalaureate in medicine from the University of Vienna in 1510, at the age of 17.

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There is speculation he gained his doctorate degree from the University of Ferrara.

He later journeyed to Egypt, Arabia, the Holy Land, and Constantinople seeking the alchemists to learn from. On his return to Europe his knowledge of these treatments won him fame.

He did not go along with the conventional treatment