Adam of Bochinia

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Adam von Bochinia (Polish: Adam z Bochenia / Bochynia / Bochnia , Adam z Łowicza , Adam Polak , Latinized Adamus Polonus ; † 1514 ) was a Polish doctor and humanist.

Adam was court physician to the Polish king Zygmunt I. Stary and professor at the University of Cracow , whose rector he was from 1510 to 1511 at the same time. As a thinker of humanism , he resisted the dominance of the clergy over the secular ones. He also put forward the thesis that humanity as a species is immortal. His main work is the writing Dyalogus de quatuor statuum, ob assequendam immortalitatem contentione , which was printed in 1508 by Johannes Haller in Krakow .

literature

  • Henryk Barycz: Adam z Bochynia, inaczej zwany z Łowicza (zm. W 1514 r.) , In: Polski Słownik Biograficzny , Vol. 1, Krakau 1935, pp. 20-21.
personal data
SURNAME Adam of Bochinia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adam z Bochynia; Adam z Łowicza; Adam z Bochnia; Adam Polak; Adamus Polonus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish doctor and humanist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1514