Anton Varus

Anton Varus also: Antonius Krumpfus, Krumbfuß (* December 12, 1557 in Weimar ; † August 20, 1637 in Jena ) was a German logician and physician.

Life

Varus' father, Anthonius Krumpfus, came from Erfurt , who became a teacher at the Latin school in Weimar after he had started studying at the university there. The father died in the year his son Anton was born, about whose educational path nothing is known, apparently he had Latinized his original name in the scholarly name Varus . Then he was commissioned to teach the Jülischen noble sons Dietrich and Gotthard von Metternich. With these he traveled to France and enrolled, with Gotthard, on November 29, 1584 at the University of Heidelberg . After Varus had enrolled free of charge at the University of Jena in the winter semester of 1584 , he switched to the University of Basel on June 10, 1585 as a Master of Philosophy .

In Basel he received his doctorate with the work De muliebris naturalibus on August 19, 1586 as a doctor of medicine. On September 11, 1586, when he returned to Jena, he received an extraordinary professorship in logic at the philosophical faculty. On December 17, 1587 he was accepted as an adjunct to the medical faculty, for which he gave the lecture De sudoribus frigidis . In 1594 he became the third full professor of the medical faculty, in 1612 second full professor and 1618 first full professor. Varus also took part in the organizational tasks of the Jena University, also known as Salana . He was dean of the medical faculty several times and in the winter semesters 1592, 1598, 1604, 1608, 1616, 1622, 1628, 1634 rector of the alma mater .

Varus was married twice. He concluded his first marriage on October 23, 1587 in Jena with Catharina Cobold (* May 28, 1564 in Altenburg; † June 20, 1601 in Jena), the daughter of the city doctor and later royal Saxon-Altenburg personal physician in Weimar Johannes Cobold and the Dorothea Peschel. His second marriage was on February 8, 1602 with Dorothea Susanna Pingitzer (born March 8, 1581 in Jena), daughter of Professor Virgil Pingitzer from Jena and Katharina Druckscherf. We know of the children of Varus:

Heinrich Varus (matriculated winter semester 1604, 1608 University of Jena)
Johann Friedrich Varus (registered winter semester 1616 University of Jena; court attorney Jena, † July 18, 1665 in Jena)
Wolfgang Varus (matriculated winter semester 1622 University of Jena)
Anton Varus (enrolled in the winter semester of 1592 at Jena University, merchant married to Magdalena Helwig)
Johannes Varus († 1601)
Daughter NN. Varus († May 22, 1601 in Jena)
Catharina Varus (born December 26, 1590 in Jena, † May 1, 1621 in Wernigerode) married. I with Dr. jur. Christoph Neumeyer (born October 21, 1586 in Weimar; † September 1, 1612 in Jena); mated II April 2, 1614 in Jena with Tobias Haberstroh (born November 5, 1583 in Pegau; † May 12, 1640 in Wernigerode)

Works (selection)

De muliebribus naturalivus. Basel 1586 ( online )
De calculis renum & vesicte.
De usu lienis.
De methodo purgandi universali. 1591
De innato calido. 1593
Tractatus de compositione medicamentorum. Jena 1597
De hydrope. 1602
Specimen faciendae medicinae in morbo articulari f. arthritis. 1603
De Melancholia. Jena 1604 ( online )
De mania et desipientia. Jena 1606
De temperamentis. Jena 1606
De Phthisi. Jena 1607, 1626
De Phrenitide. Jena 1607
De Venaesectione. Jena 1607
De oppressione incubu. Jena 1609
De melancolia desipientia. Jena 1610
De Apoplexia. Jena 1610
De febri Hectica. Jena 1610
De usu Lienis. Jena 1616
De Pulsibus. Jena 1616
De Simplicium Medicamentorum facultatibus. Jena 1617
De Quartana. Jena 1618
De angina. 1628
De variolis & morbillis. 1629
De peripneumonia. 1629
De podagra. 1630
De nephritide seu Calculo Renum. 1632
De fluxu colliquativo. 1636

literature

Johann Caspar Zeumer, Christoph Weissenborn: Vitae Professorum Theologiae, Jurisprudentiae, Medicinae et Philosophiae qui in illustri Academia Jenensi, ab ipsius fundatione ad nostra usque tempora vixerunt et adhuc vivunt una cum scriptis a quolibet editis quatuor classibus. Johann Felici Bieleck, Jena, 1711, (physician p. 26)
Varus (Anton). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 46, Leipzig 1745, column 648 f.
Jean-Jacques Manget: Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medicorum, Veterum Et Recentiorum. Perachon & Cramer, Geneva, 1731, 2nd ed., 2nd vol. P. 459 ( online )
Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1751, Vol. 4, p. 1458

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personal data
SURNAME	Varus, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Krumbfuß, Antonius; Krumpfus, Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German logician and physician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1557
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weimar
DATE OF DEATH	August 20, 1637
Place of death	Jena