# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcellus-empiricus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:35:04.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcellus-empiricus"
name: "Marcellus Empiricus"
slug: "marcellus-empiricus"
description: "Marcellus Empiricus, also known as Marcellus Burdigalensis, was a Latin medical writer from Gaul at the turn of the 4th and 5th centuries. His only extant work is the De medicamentis, a compendium of pharmacological preparations drawing on the work of multiple medical and scientific writers as well as on folk remedies and magic. It is a significant if quirky text in the history of European medical writing, an infrequent subject of monographs, but regularly mined as a source for magic charms, Celtic herbology and lore, and the linguistic study of Gaulish and Vulgar Latin. Bonus auctor est was the judgment of J.J. Scaliger, while the science historian George Sarton called the De medicamentis an “extraordinary mixture of traditional knowledge, popular (Celtic) medicine, and rank superstition.” Marcellus is usually identified with the magister officiorum of that name who held office during the reign of Theodosius I."
tagline: "Roman writer and physician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "400"
deathDate: "500"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.79
  momentum:             7.777777777777776
  historical:           11.613104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%95%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Марцел Емпірик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "مارسيلوس امبيريكوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Марцел Емпирик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Emp%C3%ADric"
    title: "Marcel Empíric"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Empiricus"
    title: "Marcellus Empiricus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Empiricus"
    title: "Marcellus Empiricus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Empiricus"
    title: "Marcellus Empiricus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Emp%C3%ADrico"
    title: "Marcelo Empírico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Empiricus"
    title: "Marcellus Empiricus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnaeus_Marcellus_Empiricus"
    title: "Cnaeus Marcellus Empiricus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Empiricus"
    title: "Marcellus Empiricus"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Empirico"
    title: "Marcello Empirico"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Empiricus"
    title: "Marcellus Empiricus"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%AD%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Марцелл Эмпирик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump