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Johannes SCULTETUS aka Schultes resp. Schultheiss (born 12.10.1595 in Ulm, died 1.12.1645 in Stuttgart). The father, a poor skipper, died when the boy was 5 years old. In an inn, the orphan's surgical talent was discovered by Adriaan van der SPIEGHEL (1578-1625), who immediately took him to Padua.
In Padua SCULTETUS was a pupil of SPIEGHEL and Fabricio d'AQUAPENDENTE. Prosector from 1616-1623, doctorate 1623. Practice in Padua and Venice, 1625 return to Ulm, where from 1623 he was in negotiations with the city council to get the position of a "city surgeon" awarded. From 1625-45 Stadtphysikus there. He died of a stroke that surprised him near Stuttgart - on the way to a (noble) patient ...
He left a single manuscript (in Latin) that was edited 15 times in Latin, and translated several times into living languages (English, Dutch, German and French) - in total more than 18 editions:
1653 Latin (folio) First edition of his "Armamentarium chirurgicum"; posthumously with Balthasar Kühnen in Ulm (only 65 pages, 43 plates) published at the instigation of his nephew.
1655 Latin edition in Leiden.
1656 Latin (octavo) edition; with Adrian Vlacq in The Hague (44 plates). Since this issue a title page with surgical scene.
1662 Latin edition; with Adrian Vlacq in The Hague (328 pages).
1666 German first edition, translated by Amadeus MEGERLIN, city doctor in Haydenheim; at (Daniel) Johann Gerlin's widow in Frankfurt a.M. (263 pages, 56 plates).
1671 Latin edition; with John v. Someren in Amsterdam.
1679 German edition "Wund-Arzneyliches Zeughaus".
1692/93 with 288 pages and 86 plates lat. at Boutestyn in Leiden.
1741 Dutch edition; at J.C. de Sprögel in Amsterdam.
1741 Dutch edition "Het vermeerderde wapenhuis of the heel-meesters" (in 't Neerduitsch vert. Door Gerardus DICTEN) in Amsterdam with Jansoons van Waesberge.
The French editions all appeared in Lyon:
1672 Antoine Galien (48 plates, two of them with monster child)
1674 with Antoine Cellier (385 pages, 48 plates, two of them with monster child)
1675
1712 at Léonard de la Roche (49 tablets - copy of the lux doctor COLLART in the Luxembourg National Library.).
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