Andreas Aurifaber

Andreas Aurifaber

Andreas Aurifaber (née Goldschmidt; * 1514 in Breslau ; † December 12, 1559 in Königsberg ) was a German doctor.

Life

The brother of Johannes Aurifaber (Vratislaviensis) went to the University of Wittenberg on August 8, 1527 , where he obtained the academic degree of a baccalaureus on March 1, 1532 and the degree of a master's degree on August 28, 1534 . After he was accepted into the Senate of the Philosophical Faculty in 1537, he went to Danzig as school rector in 1539 and to Elbing in 1541 in the same function . He returned to Wittenberg in 1542, where he married a daughter of the printer Hans Lufft , who died before 1550. He lectured on Philipp Melanchthon's De Anima as a lecturer and was dean of the faculty of philosophy in the summer semester of 1543 .

He continued his medical studies , which he had started in Wittenberg, in Padua in 1544 , for which he received a scholarship from his duke. After receiving his doctorate in medicine on December 1, 1544 in Padua , he returned to Prussia in 1545 and became the personal physician of Duke Albrecht I of Brandenburg-Ansbach in Königsberg in 1546 , as well as professor of physics at the Albertina . From 1549 to 1553 he managed a branch of the printing company of his former father-in-law Hans Lufft in Königsberg.

He was rector of the academy in 1552 , and since 1550 married to Agnes, daughter of the reformer Andreas Osiander . In the dispute over the doctrine of justification (" Osiandrischer Streit ") he took Osiander's side and had great influence on Duke Albrecht.

Works

• Historia succini (1561), a monograph on amber , printed as an appendix to the 4th book of Consilia et epistolae Cratonis published by his relative Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau .
• Annotations in Phaemonis libellum de cura canum ; Wittenberg, 1545

literature

• Irene Dingel: Lexicon for Theology and Church, Vol. 1. S. 1256
• German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) Vol. 1, p. 224
• Heinz Scheible: Religion Past and Present . (RGG) Vol. 1, p. 975
• Heinz Scheible: Melanchthon's correspondence people 11
• Thomas Anselmino: Medicine and pharmacy at the court of Albrechts of Prussia. 2003, pp. 41-46, 103-106
• Wagenmann, Gustav Kawerau: Aurifaber, Andreas. In: Realenzyklopädie für Protestantische Theologie und Kirche (RE), 3rd edition, Vol. 2, (1897), pp. 287–288
• August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples (BÄL). Urban and Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1884, Vol. 1, p. 230
• Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502–1602. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903
• August Hirsch:  Aurifaber, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 690 f.
• Gustav Hammann:  Aurifaber, Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 456 ( digitized version ).
• Aurifaber (Andreas). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 2, Leipzig 1732, column 2220.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Aurifaber (Goldschmid), Andreas. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 302-303.
• Richard L. Kremer: Calculating with Andreas Aurifaber: A new Source for Copernican Astronomy in 1540. In: Journal for the History of Astronomy 41 (4/1010), pp. 483-502

Web links

• Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts VOLUME T. 6 P. 417