Homunculus

Homunculus

“…Finally in the eighteenth century, the alchemical homunculus was evoked as an obsolete dream, as seen in the Großes vollständiges Universal-Lexikon of Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706-1751), adopting Ettmüller's opinion literally(Zedler 1732(Zedler -1754. It was the adaptation by Goethe that stimulated new interest in the Paracelsian homunculus, exercising enduring impacts on literary world of later ages (Weinstock 2014;Albrecht and Willand 2018).…”