Helmont, Jan Baptista van

Japanese: ヘルモント（英語表記）Helmont， Jan Baptista van

Born: January 12, 1580, Brussels
[Died] December 30, 1644. Vilvoorde. Dutch physiologist, chemist, and physician. A pioneer of the medical chemistry school. He is said to have built a bridge between alchemy and chemistry. He entered the University of Leuven and studied a wide range of subjects. He eventually switched to medicine and traveled to Switzerland, Italy, France, England, and other places. He was devoted to Paracelsus and studied alchemy. This opened his eyes to chemistry. He settled in Vilvoorde from 1609 onwards, and devoted himself to chemical experiments and medicine until his death there. He discovered carbon dioxide, which he named gas. In his later years, his book on magnetic healing of wounds was questioned by the Jesuits as a heretical book that explained alchemical methods, and he was imprisoned twice after 1634, but was found innocent after his death.

Helmond
Helmond

A city in the province of Noord-Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. It is located east of Eindhoven along the Zuidwillemse canal. It is a new industrial city with textile, foundry and machine industries as its core. The city hall is a castle built in 1402. The population is 70,574 (1992 estimate).

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[生]1580.1.12. ブリュッセル
[没]1644.12.30. ビルボルド
オランダの生理学者，化学者で医師。医化学派の先駆者。錬金術と化学との橋をかけた人といわれる。ルーバン大学に入り，諸学を広く学び，最後に医学に転じてスイス，イタリア，フランス，イギリスなど各地を歴訪し，その間パラケルススに傾倒し，錬金術も学んだ。これが彼に化学の眼を開かせた。 1609年以降はビルボルドに定住し，その地で亡くなるまで化学実験と医療に専念した。二酸化炭素は彼が発見したもので，これにガス gasという名称を与えた。晩年，創傷の磁力療法についての著書が，錬金術法を説く異端の書として，イエズス会士に糾問され，34年以後2度禁獄の厄にあったが，死後無罪とされた。