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Original antique woodcut, uncolored. After Martin Waldseemüller. This map was published by Lorenz Fries based upon Waldseemüller´s Ptolemaic map, which was first published 1513 in Strassbourg. Lorenz Fries, also called Lorenz Phryes, Latinized Laurentius Phrisius (* around 1490; † 1531/32 in Metz) was a German doctor, astrologer and geographer whose main focus was in Alsace. His most famous work is the "Mirror of Medicine" (twelve editions 1518–1557). Lorenz Fries' date and place of birth cannot be determined with certainty. Possible dates of birth have been discussed: "around 1485", August 10, 1489 or "after 1490". Possible places of birth have been given: Mulhouse or Colmar, Metz, Swabia (Markgröningen). Sudhoff (1904) and Öhlschlägel (1985) assumed that Fries studied in Padua, Piacenza, Montpellier and Vienna, where he probably completed his studies. There is no evidence for this. Fries' name first appeared in 1513 on a Nuremberg single-sheet print. At the end of 1518 he lived in the Augustinian monastery in Colmar. In Colmar he probably worked as a general practitioner. On the title page of the first edition of "Spiegel der Arznei" in 1518 he called himself "von Colmar / der Philosophy und Artzney Doctor". He dedicated this work to Johann Dingler, the Schlettstadt guild master of the fishermen. In March 1519 Fries moved to Strasbourg. In July of the same year he accepted a call to Freiburg im Üechtland, where he held the office of city doctor for 8 months and where he met Agrippa von Nettesheim. In the middle of 1520 he returned to Strasbourg and married Barbara Thun, the daughter of the deceased Strasbourg master glazier Ambrosius Thun. Fries thus became a citizen of Strasbourg and a member of the "Zur Steltz" guild (goldsmiths and printers). In May 1525, Fries gave up his Strasbourg citizenship and left the city. Until the winter of 1528, he stayed in Trier, where he worked as a doctor. On February 28, 1528, Paracelsus, who had fled from Basel, wrote to Bonifacius Amerbach: "Phrusius de Colmaria optime valet, sumque optimus familiae et totam civitatem." ("Fries of Colmar is in the best of health, and I have been well received by his family and the whole city.") In July 1528, Fries wrote a "Prognostication" for the year 1529 in Diedenhofen. In Metz, in October 1528, he created a French-language "Prognostication" for the year 1529 and on November 14, 1528, a birth horoscope for his friend Nicolas de Heu (1494–1547), the mayor of Metz. In the 1532 edition of the "Spiegel der Arznei" printed by Balthasar Beck in Strasbourg, a foreword by Lorenz Fries was printed, which he had written on July 23, 1530 in Metz. In it he noted in passing: "... God let me live a short time..." Another foreword in the same edition was written on May 14, 1532 by Otto Brunfels. It said: "... therefore the author of this book, the highly esteemed doctor Laurentius Fries, was forced to correct this before his death...". From these statements it was concluded that Fries died between July 1530 and May 1532. A "long-standing friendship" connected Fries with the Strasbourg printer and publisher Johannes Grüninger, who published the majority of his works. (Wikipedia)

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