Cuba, Johannes von, active 1484-1503

LC control no.	n 85313105
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Cuba, Johannes von, active 1484-1503 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Cuba, Johannes von, fl. 1484-1503 Caub, Johannes von, active 1484-1503 Cuba, Joannes de, active 1484-1503 Cube, Johann von, active 1484-1503 Cube, Johan von, active 1484-1503 Dronnecke, Johann, active 1484-1503 Joannes, de Cuba, active 1484-1503 Johann, of Caub, active 1484-1503 Kaub, Johannes von, active 1484-1503 Wonnecke, Johann, active 1484-1503 Wonnecke von Cuba, Johann, active 1484-1503 Ioannes de Cuba, fl 1484-1503
Other standard no.	49269039 0000000108986554
Beginning date	1484
Ending date	1503
Associated place	Augsburg (Germany)
Located	Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Heidelberg (Germany)
Birth date	1430~
Death date	[1503-09-23..1504-03-05]
Place of birth	Kaub (Germany)
Field of activity	Medicine Public health Botany Pharmacology Materia medica
Affiliation	Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Stadtarzt.
Profession or occupation	Physicians Health officers Frankfurt am Main (Germany)--Officials and employees Botanists Pharmacologists
Found in	Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, via Deutsche Biographie Web site, July 6, 2015 (Cuba: Johann Dronnecke (or Wonnecke) von Caub, known as Johann Cuba, lived towards the end of the 15th century in Augsburg, later (1484) in Frankfurt am Main, and is the author of a medicinal herbal that first appeared in Latin as Herbarius, then in German as "Ortus sanitatis, auff teutsch, ein Gart der Gesuntheit etc.") Neue deutsche Biographie, via Deutsche Biographie Web site, July 6, 2015 (Cuba (Cube), Johannes von (Johann Wonnecke (Dronnecke) from Kaub), died between 23.9.1503 and 5.3.1504, Frankfurt am Main (?); town physician in Frankfurt am Main, 1484; received citizenship, 1503; formerly believed to be the author of "Gart der Gesuntheit," but his contribution was probably only in translating the work into German, perhaps also in compiling the text and selecting the plants to be illustrated) Hirsch, A. Biog. lex. hervorragenden Arzte, 1929-34 (Cuba, Johann von, also Cube, with family name Wonnecke or Dronnecke) Jöcher, C.G. Allg. gelehrten-lex., 1750-51 (Cuba, Johannes, fl. mid-15th cent.) Schreiber, W.L. Kräuterbücher des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts. In Hortus sanitatis, deutsch. Peter Schöffer, Mainz 1485 [Facsimile reprint of Gart der Gesundheit], 1924, pages i-lxiii page xi ("Der Verfasser des Textes war der Frankfurter Stadtarzt Johann von Cube") page xii (author's real name was Johann Wonnecke; "von Cube" signifies that he came from the city Kaub on the Rhine) NLM files, 9-14-87 (hdg.: Joannes de Cuba, fl. 1484-1503; usage: Joannes de Cuba, Johann Dronnecke, Johann Wonnecke, Johan von Cube) Gart der Gesundheit. Ein Gart der Gesuntheit. Mainz : Peter Schöffer, 1485, via MDZ/BSB, July 21, 2015: end of chapter 76 ("eyn gewisse artzney ... versuecht ... von mir, Meister Johan von Cube") Gart der Gesundheit. Ain Garten der Gesunthait, 1487: leaf g2v (end of chapter 76: "ain gůtte ercznei ... versůcht ... von mir, Maister Johannes von Cube") German Wikipedia, July 7, 2015 (article title: Johann Wonnecke von Kaub; Johann Wonnecke von Kaub (born approximately 1430; died 1503/04), also Johann[es] Dronnecke, Johannes de Cuba; German physician and botanist) Klebs, A.C. "Incunabula lists. I. Herbals" and "Note on the 'Hortus problem.'" In Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 11 (1917): 75-92; 12 (1918): 41-57, via ProQuest, July 7, 2015: v. 12, page 42 (Gart der Gesundheit, edited by Johann of Caub) v. 12, page 54 (Johannes Cuba; only 15th-century evidence of his connection with Gart der Gesundheit is the single mention of his name in chapter 76 of the work) v. 12, page 55 (Johan [sic] Wonnecke of Caub; "he may have read proof and annotated a passage" of Gart der Gesundheit, but cannot be shown with certainty to have had any further connection with the work) Fuchs, R.W. "Die Mainzer Frühdrucke mit Buchholzschnitten 1480-1500." In Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, Bd. 2 (1960): 1-129, pages 86-92 (Johann Wonnecke von Kaub, author of the "Gart"; in contemporary sources often Johann von Cube (Cuba), Doctor Cube, etc.; widely recognized in early sources as author of Gart der Gesundheit, though some modern authorities have disagreed; his role was as compiler and translator of the texts, rather than author in the modern sense; his name implies he was born in Kaub on the Rhine; studied in Cologne (documented there as "Joh. Winneck de Cuba," 1448) and Erfurt (documented there as "Ihoannes Wincke de Coba" and Iohannes Wynneck de Cuba," 1451 and 1453); his birth year may therefor be estimated as approximately 1430-1435; a physician "Hans von Cube" or "Hennechin von Cube," documented in Frankfurt around 1460, may be the same person; documented as city physician (Stadtarzt) in Frankfurt am Main, Sept. 7, 1484-1503; his final salary was paid Sept. 23, 1503; he must have died before Mar. 5, 1504, when his son-in-law requested guardians for his minor children; the assertion that he was city physician in Augsburg before assuming that office in Frankfurt is probably untrue; active as a physician in Mainz at the time of his appointment) Keil, G. "Wonnecke, Johann." In Die Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters : Verfasserlexikon, v. 10, Lieferung 5, 1999: columns 1421-1422 (caption: "Wonnecke, Johann"; Johann Wonnecke ("Drommecke" is an erroneous reading) was originally from Kaub, as the Latin designation of origin "de Cuba" indicates; born there approximately 1430; studied in Cologne and Erfurt, 1448-1453; probably active as physician in Frankfurt am Main 1455-1460, then personal physician to various highly placed persons including Count Palatine Friedrich the Victorious in Heidelberg; while living in Mainz in 1484, he was recruited as city physician in Frankfurt, in which office he served from Sept. 7, 1484, to his death in 1503 or 1504; commissioned by Bernhard von Breidenbach with the composition of Gart der Gesundheit in approximately 1480) Keil, G. "Gart der Gesundheit." In Die Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters, Verfasserlexikon, v. 2, 1980, columns 1072-1092: column 1073 (Bernhard von Breidenbach commissioned the Mainz physician Johannes Wonnecke von Kaub (or Cuba) to compile the text of an herbal) columns 1076-1079 (commissioned about 1480; Wonnecke von Kaub concluded his work on the "Gart" by 1482; preface misleadingly implies compilation from the works of ancient masters known through Latin sources, whereas the basis of the compilation is now known to be German-language manuscript sources) OCLC, July 7, 2015 (access points include Cuba, Johann; Cuba, Johann von; Cuba, Johannes von; Cube, Johann von; Cuba, Joannes de; Wonnecke von Cuba, Johann; Wonnecke, Johannes; Joannes de Cuba, active 1484-1503) LC database, accessed October 23, 2020 (hdg.: Ioannes de Cuba, fl 1484-1503, [from old catalog])
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