Amirdovlat Amasiatsi is a world-renowned Armenian encyclopedic scholar and healer; his fame is comparable to that of Hippocrates and Avicenna. He was educated in Constantinople under the most experienced doctors of his time, who awarded him the title of Master of medicine.
The great Sultan Mehmed II appointed him to his palace. But intrigues against him, not least because he is a Christian, make him leave. As a traveling healer, he got to know and study various herbs from Asia Minor, Iran, the Balkans. Because he was fluent in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Persian and Ottoman, he was able to collect an incredible amount of information about various plants and medicinals, assimilate and describe their health effects.
His fame as knowledgeable and able to heal hundreds of diseases spread throughout the Ottoman Empire. When an epidemic of plague broke out in Constantinople (1466–1467) and the great Sultan Mehmed II temporarily moved to Vidin, he again invited the "doctor of doctors" Amirdovlat Amasiatsi to his court.
Here, in Bulgaria (in Plovdiv), Amasiatsi began to write his masterpiece, his fundamental scientific work "Unnecessary for the Ignorant". After four years of hard work, the book is finally finished. It is an invaluable encyclopedic handbook, summarizing the experience and traditions not only of Armenian, but also of all medieval medicine (about 1000 herbs, 250 natural preparations and more than 50 minerals are described).
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