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Stephan Michelspacher was a Tyrolean printmaker active in Augsburg during the early seventeenth century.

Michelspacher was a paracelsian physician living in Tyrol. Alinda van Ackooy has suggested that as a Lutheran he left Tyrol in around 1613 owing to the Catholic Renewal promoted by the Habsburgs. Augsburg also was a centre of the print industry, in which Michelspacher was to participate.

In Augsburg, on becoming a printmaker, he published Cabala, Spiegel der Kunst und Natur: in Alchymia in 1615. The book is noted for its selection of hermetic inspired prints.

He collaborated with Johann Remmelin on an anatomical work, Pinax microcosmographicus.

References

1. "Stephan Michelspacher (Biographical details)". British Museum. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
2. Ackooy, Alinda van. "Through the Alchemical Looking Glass. An Interpretation of Stephan Michelspacher's Cabala: Spiegel der Kunst und Natur, in Alchymia concerning the Tincture of the Alchemists". Academia.edu. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
3. Rola, Stanislas Klossowski de (1997). The golden game : alchemical engravings of the seventeenth century (1st paperback ed.). New York: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0500279816.

• 17th-century Austrian physicians