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Johannes Nicolaus Furichius
Johannes Nicolaus Furichius (1602–1633) was a Franco-German neo-latin Imperial poet laureate, pharmacist, doctor of medicine and alchemist from Strasbourg.
==Life and Works==
Born 1602 to French Huguenot parents in Strasbourg Furichius only learned German while already attending the protestant gymnasium at which he was a school-mate of Johann Michael Moscherosch (1601-1669). Both poets would henceforth cultivate an exchange of dedicatory and occasional epigrams.〔Correspondence analysed and partially edited in Kühlmann 1984, pp. 112-117.〕 1622 Furichius obtained the degree of ''magister artium'' together with that of an Imperial ''poeta laureatus'' and commenced studying medicine. In the same year he published his first anthology ''Libelli Carminum Tres'' which was ensued by the ''Poemata Miscellanea. Lyrica, Epigrammata, Satyrae, Eclogae, Alia'' in 1624, both books did not yet contain alchemical poetry but - like Moscherosch's early works - display both the city's intellectual life and the gymnasium's and the early University of Strasbourg's curricula: from portrays of professors and fellow students, valedictions and congratulations over mere formal jesting, satires and confessional polemics to historical and philosophical miniatures and theological exhortations.〔On Furichius' early years cfr. Reiser 2011, pp. 27-34; annotated extracts from both anthologies ibid., pp. 30-32, 348-352.〕
Sojourning in Switzerland and Brixen between 1624 and 1626 Furichius travelled to the Venetian Republic where he inscribed at the medical faculty of the Padovan ''Universitas Artistarum'' and the corporation of the transalpine students, the German ''Natio Artistarum''.〔Within their ''matricula'' Furichius lists as ''No 1738'' cfr. Reiser 2011, pp. 34-35; Rosetti 1986, p. 213.〕 Furichius' increasing interest in alchemical speculations and natural philosophy resulted in his first alchemical poem ''Golden Chain or Poetical Hermes of the Philosophers' Stone'' — ''Aurea Catena siue Hermes poeticus de Lapide Philosophorum'' (printed in 1627); an ''aemulatio'' of Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli's ''Chrysopoeia'' (Venice 1515).〔On the interdependence cfr. Kahn 2010, p. 272; Reiser 2011, pp. 51-56.〕 1628 he returned to Strasbourg. Having defended his doctoral thesis in medicine and started to practice he married the daughter of the established goldsmith Josias Barbette (master craftsman in 1605),〔Cfr. Egg 1966; Reiser 2011, pp. 36-37.〕 with whom he had five children, three of them died until 1633. In those years Furichius experimented with pharmaceutic alchemy and - although frowned upon by the local Protestant orthodoxy - established bonds to the Rosicrucian movement, namely to the Hamburgian Rosicrucian, obsessed bibliophile and keen traveller Joachim Morsius (1593-1643). Throughout their correspondence and when they met in Strasbourg during the winter of 1631/32 Morsius insisted on Furichius expanding the ''Aurea Catena'' to a great alchemical ''scientific poem'' which was published in 1631 as the ''Four Books of Chryseis'' — ''Chryseidos Libri IIII'' (sic).〔Extensive biography of Morsius cfr. Schneider 1929; in brief cfr. Reiser 2011, pp. 37-42; the work's dedicatory preface which is addressed to him ibid. pp. 66-70, 195-205.〕 At the age of 31 Furichius fell victim to the plague, which took a particularly grim toll from the Strasbourgian doctors, on 14 October 1633.〔For the years to his death, with edition and translation of the funeral sermon cfr. Reiser 2011, pp. 29-46, 356-358; a concise biographical article Reiser 2009.〕
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