John Wolfgang Rumler (died c. 1650) was a German physician and apothecary in Augsburg, known for his Observationes medicae, who eventually served the English royal family in the households of Prince of Wales, Queen Anne, King James and Charles I of England. He is also credited with making blackface theatrical grease-paint.[1]
^Sujata Iyengar, Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), p. 190.
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JohnWolfgangRumler (died c. 1650) was a German physician and apothecary in Augsburg, known for his Observationes medicae, who eventually served the English...
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the Spanish Match. After Lownes died in 1627 his post was given to JohnWolfgangRumler. HMC Laing Manuscripts, vol. 1 (London, 1914), pp. 152-3. George...
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