Albich of Uniczow

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Czech physician, lawyer, provost of Vyšehrad and archbishop of Prague.
From 1399, he was the personal physician of Wenceslas IV. By 1411, he was teaching medicine at the Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, where he dramatically raised the professional level and prestige of the entire faculty (medicine was not yet recognized as one of the ‘arts’).
After the death of Wenceslas IV., he became the personal physician to his brother Sigismund of Luxembourg, who elevated him to the nobility for his services. During the Hussite wars, Albich had to abandon all his properties and flee the country.
From his extensive literary legacy, the most significant works are Compendium medicinae (Medical Compendium) and Regimen sanitatis seu Vetularius (Rules for the Preservation of Health), intended for the general public.

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