Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
1493-1541
He was a Swiss medical alchemist who used the art to relieve human suffering. Paracelsus was an intriguing person, pompous but brilliant. His middle name migrated to the English language as "bombastic," meaning pompous and pretentious. | ||
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