Editing Paracelsus (section)

===In popular culture===
A number of fictionalized depictions of Paracelsus have been published in modern literature. The first presentation of Paracelsus's life in the form of a [[historical novel]] was published in 1830 by Dioclès Fabre d'Olivet (1811–1848, son of [[Antoine Fabre d'Olivet]]),<ref>''Un médecin d'autrefois. La vie de Paracelse'', Paris (1830), reprinted 1838,  German translation by Eduard Liber as '' Theophrastus Paracelsus oder der Arzt : historischer Roman aus den Zeiten des Mittelalters '', Magdeburg (1842).</ref> [[Robert Browning]] wrote a long poem based on the life of Paracelsus, entitled ''Paracelsus'', published 1835.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_D3YCAAAAQAAJ  ''Paracelsus'' (1835)]</ref> Meinrad Lienert in 1915 published a tale (which he attributed to [[Gall Morel]]) about Paracelsus's sword.<ref>The sword was said to contain the [[philosopher's stone]] in its pommel, and Morell's tale concerns Paracelsus's death (due to his being interrupted during the casting of a spell against poisoning) and his command that the sword should be thrown into the [[Sihl river]] after he dies.  Meinrad Lienert, "Der Hexenmeister" in: ''Schweizer Sagen und Heldengeschichten'', Stuttgart (1915).</ref>

[[Arthur Schnitzler]] wrote a verse play  ''Paracelsus'' in 1899. [[Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer]] wrote a novel trilogy (''Paracelsus-Trilogie''), published during 1917–26. Martha Sills-Fuchs (1896–1987) wrote three ''[[völkisch]]'' plays with Paracelsus as the main character during 1936–1939 in which Paracelsus is depicted as the prophetic healer of the [[German people]].<ref>Udo Benzenhöfer, "Die Paracelsus-Dramen der Martha Sills-Fuchs im Unfeld des 'Vereins Deutsche Volksheilkunde' Julius Streichers" in Peter Dilg, Hartmut Rudolph (eds.), ''Resultate und Desiderate der Paracelsus-Forschun'' (1993), 163–81.</ref>
The [[cinema of Germany|German]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] ''[[Paracelsus (film)|Paracelsus]]'' was made in [[1943 in film|1943]], directed by [[Georg Wilhelm Pabst]].<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/37218/Paracelsus/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218141535/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/37218/Paracelsus/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 February 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2012 |title=NY Times: Paracelsus |access-date=13 September 2009}}</ref> Also in 1943, Richard Billinger wrote a play ''Paracelsus'' for the [[Salzburg Festival]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6oiD85C9HzUC&pg=PA73 p. 73].</ref>

Finnish writer [[Mika Waltari]]'s ''[[The Adventurer (novel)|The Adventurer]]'' (1948) has a scene fictionalizing Paracelsus's acquisition of his legendary sword. Paracelsus is the main character of [[Jorge Luis Borges]]'s short story "La rosa de Paracelso" (anthologized in ''[[Shakespeare's Memory (short story collection)|Shakespeare's Memory]]'', 1983). ''The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments'', borrowing from Jorge Luis Borges, is also a novel by [[William Leonard Pickard]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.oaktreereview.com/indigos-delivery-an-excerpt-from-the-rose-of-paracelsus/|title = Indigo's Delivery: An Excerpt from the Rose of Paracelsus|date = 16 April 2018|access-date = 11 December 2018|archive-date = 14 December 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181214065149/http://www.oaktreereview.com/indigos-delivery-an-excerpt-from-the-rose-of-paracelsus/|url-status = live}}</ref>