Andreas Schato

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Andreas Schato

Andreas Schato (also: Schato von Schattenthal, Schade, Schcato, Scato etc .; born August 19, 1539 in Torgau , † March 17, 1603 in Wittenberg ) was a German mathematician, physicist and doctor.

Life

Schato studied from 1555 at the University of Jena . On June 19, 1559 he moved to the University of Wittenberg . In Wittenberg he saw Philipp Melanchthon . Veit Winsheim's lectures in ethics should have been known to him, as well as those in mathematics with Sebastian Theodoricus , Matthäus Blöchinger and Caspar Peucer . He is also likely to have attended the physics lectures with Esrom Rüdinger and gained experience in rhetoric through Petrus Vincentius and Albert Lemeier . Thus trained in the Artes Liberales , he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on October 8, 1562 . After he had worked as a private lecturer in Wittenberg, he was accepted into the senate of the philosophical faculty in 1563.

But already in the following year he accepted an offer as a teacher in Stargard and was subsequently deputy principal in Stettin . After Schato had married in Stettin, he returned to Wittenberg in 1570 and since he did not immediately find another job at the philosophical faculty, he worked as a private lecturer. But soon he found access to academic life again and in 1574 was appointed professor of lower mathematics at the Wittenberg University. During that time he dealt with the scientific questions of medicine and acquired under Salomon Alberti with the dissertation De morbis mesenterii on May 16, 1578 the degree of a licentiate in medicine and received his doctorate on May 26, 1578 under the same respondent with the Oratio de Mosco to the doctor of medicine.

Having trained in the natural sciences in this way, he was made professor of physics in 1581. Although he had been entrusted with the supervision of the university library as inspector for 20 guilders a year in 1588, this ordinarium was only a stepping stone for him. Because in 1592 he took over a full professorship for medicine, which he held until the end of his life. Schato is said to have been ennobled by Emperor Rudolf II with the addition of Schattenthal. Scato, who was open to the innovations of the time, also knew the works of Paracelsus , but it was only his son-in-law Daniel Sennert who was to set decisive accents in the establishment of iatrochemistry in his work .

As a mathematician and astrologer, he was in contact with Johannes Kepler , whom he should have met through Tycho Brahe . Schato had also taken on organizational tasks at the Wittenberg Academy. In the summer semester of 1574, as well as in the winter semesters of 1583 and 1591, he was dean of the philosophical faculty, took over the vice-rector's council instead of Peter Otto in the summer semester of 1594 and was rector of the Wittenberg Academy in the summer semester of 1581 and in the winter semesters of 1593 and 1599 . His body was buried on March 19, 1603 in the Wittenberg Castle Church, where an epitaph was erected on the south side of the outer nave.

family

Genealogically, it should be noted that he had married Rebecca Thymaeus from Stettin. The children are known from this marriage:

  • Andreas Schato the Elder J. (born July 12, 1572 in Wittenberg)
  • Maria Schato (* July 18, 1577 in Wittenberg; † September 28, 1577 ibid)
  • Margarete (born September 13, 1578 in Wittenberg) married. 1603 with Daniel Sennert
  • Johann Schato (born October 9, 1580 in Wittenberg; † June 30, 1583 ibid)
  • Michael Schato (born July 17, 1582 in Wittenberg)
  • Daniel Schato (born April 2, 1586 in Wittenberg)

Selection of works

  1. Oratio de corporis et animi in homine copulatione; Johannis de Monte Regio Tabulae directionum… denuo nunc editae. Wittenberg 1584, 1606
  2. Scriptoris veteris Pauli Alexandrini Rudimenta in doctrinam de praedictis natalitijs. (Greek and Latin) 1586, corrected new edition 1588
  3. Oratio de medicinae pulcherrimae (Prom. Cocus, Magnus). Wittenberg 1597
  4. Oratio de contagione. Wittenberg 1601
  5. Oratio secularis in Academia Witebergensi Collegij Medici nomine abita. 1602 1603, 1676
  6. De variolis et morbillis. Wittenberg 1593
  7. De vertigine, De epilepsia, De apoplexia, De paralysi, De convulsione, De incubo. Wittenberg 1600
  8. De ictero (or Leopoldi). Wittenberg 1602

literature

  • Hans Theodor Koch: The Wittenberg Medical Faculty (1502–1652) - A biobibliographical overview. In Stefan Oehmig: Medicine and Social Affairs in Central Germany during the Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02437-7
  • Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
  • Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice-rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel, Günther Wartenberg : Georg Major (1502–1574) - A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02332-0
  • Schato, Andreas. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 34, Leipzig 1742, column 974.
  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher : "Schato (Schade, Schcato, Scato), Andreas", in: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath, AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 87.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502-1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 , pp. 455-470.
  2. ↑ This could possibly be related to the Prague doctor Severin Schatte von Schattenthal (cf. Heinrich Kunstmann: Die Nürnberger Universität Altdorf und Böhmen. Böhlau Verlag, 1963, p. 216)
  3. ↑ Johannes Kepler's collected works. CH Beck, 1938, p. 53
  4. ↑ Andreas Sennert: Athenae Itemque Inscriptiones Wittenbergensis. Libri II. Wittenberg 1678
  5. ↑ Text of the epitaph: Hic situs est Andreas Schato Torgensis Medicinae D. & Facultatis Senior in Academia Witebergensi per Annos 29. Raro exemplo variorum disciplinarum Mathematum Physices & Medicinae Professor, omnibus Scholasticis honoribus perfunctus Magna cum Laude Nobilatisi insus industriae sapientiae et from Imperatore mercuit exemplum bono viri, boni Professoris boni Christiani. Obit 17th d. Martij, Anno Christi 1603. Aetatis 64. (cf. Gottfried Suevo: Academieae Wittebergensis from anno fundationes 1502…. Usque ad annum 1655. Wittenberg 1655)
  6. ↑ His mother of unknown name died on March 4, 1582 in Wittenberg
  7. ↑ Timaeus?
  8. ^ Theodor Wotschke: From Wittenberg church books. in Archive for Reformation History (ARG) No. 115/116 XXIX Volume 3–4
personal data
SURNAME Schato, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schatte von Schattenthal, Andreas; It's a shame, Andreas; Schcato, Andreas; Scato, Andreas; Schad, Andreas; Schadius, Andreas; Schadt, Andreas; Shaft, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, physicist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1539
PLACE OF BIRTH Torgau
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1603
Place of death Wittenberg