December 17, 1493 (or November 11?) - September 24, 1541
Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian and philosopher
Author of "A Book of Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, and on the Other Spirits", "The Archidoxes of Magic" and "Four Treatises of Theophrastus Von Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus"
He is referred to as "the father of toxicology" by the book "Paracelsus: Herald of Modern Toxicology"
Born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim