Alexander von Suchten

Alexander von Suchten (c. 1520 in Dirschau (Tczew) or Danzig (Gdańsk) – 7 November 1575 in Linz) was an alchemist, doctor and writer.

[5] Not long after, this position was barred to uneducated men, so Suchten matriculated in the University of Leuven on 19 January 1541, where he studied philosophy and medicine.

[6] Around 1545 he spent a lot of time at the court of Albert of Prussia in Königsberg, where he published his poem Vandalus (based on a Polish legend about Princess Wanda).

From 1567 he worked with the Strasbourg doctor Michael Toxites in Alsace and in the Upper Rhine.

In the fall of 1574 Suchten began to practise as a country doctor in Linz in Upper Austria.