Adrian von Mynsicht

Adrian von Mynsicht ^[1] (1603–1638) was a German alchemist. He is best known for the allegorical work Aureum Saeculum Redivivum (The Golden Age Restored),^[2] published under the pseudonym Henricus Madathanus, and usually dated to 1621/2. It was soon reprinted in collections, the Musaeum Hermeticum[1] and the Dyas Chymica Tripartita, both 1625 (Frankfurt, same publisher).

He wrote also the Thesaurus et Armamentarium Medico-Chymicum (1631), a medical work.^[3]

^ Otherwise known as Henricus or Hinricus Madathanus, Adrian Seumenicht or Sümenicht, Hadrianus a Mynsicht, Hadrianus a Munsicht, Hadrian Mynsicht; it has been suggested (here Archived December 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, German language) that the real name was Adrian Seumenicht, with Hadrianus a Munsicht derived as anagram
^ The Golden Age Restored [2](described here).
^ A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases was the subtitle of the English translation [3]; Mynsicht was said in the latter part of a short life to have been a physician.

[1] Otherwise known as Henricus or Hinricus Madathanus, Adrian Seumenicht or Sümenicht, Hadrianus a Mynsicht, Hadrianus a Munsicht, Hadrian Mynsicht; it has been suggested (here Archived December 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, German language) that the real name was Adrian Seumenicht, with Hadrianus a Munsicht derived as anagram

[2] The Golden Age Restored [2](described here).

[3] A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases was the subtitle of the English translation [3]; Mynsicht was said in the latter part of a short life to have been a physician.

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