Re: Re: VMs: Olomouc and Barcius

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Hi Jean,
you wrote:

>Could M.Barcius be M.Barschius alias Bares, Baresch, etc?

>Here is first a short summary of my attached last mail on the topic.
Barcius aka Jan oder Johann or Johannes or Jean von Sternberg ( ze Sternberk) was originating
from Olomouc region.

Probably so: Alcheny page quotes:   M. Barcius, Johann von Sternberg. Gloria Mundi, small Paradeis board.
How did he get the name, I do not know, no place comes in mind. Sternbergs were very old Czech and  later Moravian nobility, but always Sternbergs, never Barcius. They still exist today.

>He was an alchemist, today almost unknown.
He is said to have written Gloria Mundi, which according to Ferguson (an expert in alchemical
ms and publications) could have been published only in 1620.

I found this: : M, BARCIUS, JOHANN VON STERNBERG (AUTORE ANONYMO) - Gloria mundi. Kleine Paradeis Tafel. Das ist Beschreibung der Dralten Wissenschaft des Lapidis Philosophorum
London: Hof, 1774. 2nd Edn.. Leather. 8vo HB title torn and repaired and laid down, some worming towards end with slight loss, modern calf, [Caillet 4598; Ferguson I p.330-1]. G-.
GBP 600.02 = appr. US$ 1092.04


One our our assistants discovered Czech book by   Arno?t Va?ícek,  Zkázy a zázraky, 
wher he mentions Czech astrologer Jiri Brozek  (Georgius  Brozek) - it may be misspelled. He studied in Italy then he left fot Poland to help  Krzystof  Ossolinski  (?-1645) to build some castle intended suppousedly as some time machine (?) It is located in NE  Poland, the castle is called   
Krzy?topor. They started to bulid it in  1615. The building has 4 towers, 12 halls, 53 rooms and 365 windows. They finished it around 1642. Apaprently Brozek was already elsewhere so when on his trip there he died "mysterious" death. Now if it was barschius, it would be more then 20 years later:-). 

While the dates makes no sense, the castle still exists,   http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A685208

the beautiful picture is at  http://plfoto.com/zdjecie.php?picture=528138&all=1


It was subsequently partially destroyed by Swedes. Evebntually Russians blasted a part of it.  

Jan 
 


 


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