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JUNG-STILLING. 1163
sorship and Basel. He then continued his journeys through Alsace
and Germany performing great cures, and at the same time proc
claiming against superstition in science and religion ; and making
important discoveries in chemistry and medicine. By his relentless
exposition of abuses, wherever he came into contact with them, he
made many enemies, who avenged themselves by denouncing him as
a quack and as the anti-christ ; and as a glutton and wine-bibber.
He died at last in Salzburg in 1541 , where he was probably murdered.
Paracelsus was a most prolific writer ; he is said to have written as
many as 364 works ; of these, however, only a few were printed.
The completest edition of his works was printed in ten volumes at
Basel, in 1589 ; yet a number of the works therein included were not
written by him.
NOTE 215.
JUNG-STILLING.
John Henry Jung, called Stilling, was born in 1740. At first
he intended to become a charcoal-burner, but he served afterwards
his apprenticeship to a tailor. Meanwhile he did not neglect his
education, so that in course of time he aspired to become a
schoolmaster. As he did not succeed in this, he returned to his trade,
but having a disposition which inspired confidence and affection, he
soon left it again, and became private tutor. After saving up some
money, he studied medicine in Strasburg, where he associated with
Goethe. After finishing his studies he settled down in Elberfeld as
a physician, and became celebrated as an oculist. In 1778 he received
a call to a professional school at Lautern, where candidates were
prepared for the civil service ; and after this institution was merged
in the University of Heidelberg he removed to that town as a
professor of agriculture ; in 1787 he accepted a call to the University
of Marburg as professor of political economy, but in 1804 returned
to Heidelberg as ordinary professor in the same department. Towards
the latter part of his life he retired to Carlsruhe with the position
of privy councillor, and died there in 1817.
The fame of Jung-Stilling is mostly due to his writings. In
1777 and 1778 he published an account of his own life under the
title: "Henry Stilling’s youth, his early manhood, and his wanderings,"
which was succeeded in 1787 by "Henry Stilling’s domestic life."
A second edition of these works was published in Berlin, in 1806,
under the title, "Henry Stilling, a true story," in five volumes. He
acquired greater celebrity, however, by his other somewhat mystical
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