Bartholomäus Wagner

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Bartholomäus Wagner
(detail from the epitaph 1571)

Bartholomäus Wagner (* around 1520 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † May 15, 1571 in Danzig ) was a German mathematician and physician.

Life

Coat of arms of the Königsberg patrician dynasty Wagner, as it is shown similarly in Bartholomäus Wagner's epitaph from 1571 and as the son led it in 1586
Wagner coat of arms as the eponymous son (1563-1617) in 1586 in the pedigree of the Danzig merchant and since 1612 mayor Junker did enter Johann Speimann of the Spit (1563-1625)

Nothing is known about Wagner's origins. In 1536 it appears in the registers of the University of Frankfurt (Oder) , where, after studying Artes Liberalis under the dean's office of Christoph Corner, on July 16, 1541, he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy and was accepted into the senate of the philosophical faculty in 1543 has been. In September 1544 he enrolled in the matriculation of the University of Wittenberg . In Wittenberg he came into contact with Philipp Melanchthon , who recommended him to Veit Dietrich in a letter dated May 1, 1546 and allowed him to travel to Johann Magenbuch and the Nuremberg doctors because of impending blindness .

Bartholomäus Wagner and family (detail from the epitaph 1571)
Painted by Hans Vredeman de Vries on behalf of Bartholomäus Wagner and the brothers Johann Adrian and Nicolas van der Linde

In 1545/46 he became the first professor of mathematics at the University of Königsberg , in the summer semester of 1549 dean of the philosophical faculty there and in 1551 rector of the alma mater . In 1553 he was dismissed due to the Osiandrian dispute in Königsberg. Then his traces are lost. After receiving his doctorate in medicine, he went to Gdansk in 1562. Here he became a city ​​physician and worked in this capacity until the end of his life. In 1564 he published a book about the plague. After his death, an epitaph was erected for him in the Marienkirche in Gdańsk , which consists of a four-part painting, the main part of which depicts the resurrection of Christ and below the donor couple with their alliance coat of arms. The epitaph is now in the National Museum of Gdansk .

literature

  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, p. 372 and addendum p. 65
  • Friedrich Johann Buck : Biographies of the deceased mathematicians in general and of the great Prussian mathematician P. Christian Otters, who died more than a hundred years ago, credibly promoted to print, especially in two departments. Hartung & Zeise, Königsberg and Leipzig, 1764, p. 12, ( online )
  • Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502–1602. Duncker and Humblot Publishing House, Leipzig, 1903, p. 44
  • Lars Severin: A Pomeranian aristocratic excursion about (...) the families (v.) Wagner, v. the linden tree (...). In: Genealogy German journal for family history. Volume XXXII / 64. Volume 2, Degener & Co, Insingen 2015, pp. 444–449

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Kaufmann, Gustav Bauch: Acts and documents from the University of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag M. & H. Marcus, Breslau, 1907, 1st volume, 4th issue, The Dean's Book of the Faculty of Philosophy 1540–1596. P. 26 and 29
  2. ↑ Christine Mundhenk: Melanchthon's correspondence. (MBW) Texts 2336 - 2604, Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7728-0631-5 , Volume 9, p. 218
  3. ↑ where? Krakow, Prague, Italy ?, no further matriculations in Greifswald, Rostock, Erfurt and Leipzig verifiable, also the deanery books of Frankfurt / O. and Wittenberg do not contain any med. PhD, not even Bologna (Knod)
  4. ^ Paul Simson: History of the City of Danzig until 1626. Danzig 1918, new edition Scientia-Verlag, Aalen, 1967, Vol. 2, p. 380
  5. ↑ "German Documentation Center for Art History - Photo Archive Photo Marburg": Epitaph for Bartholomäus Wagner (photo before 1930, at that time still at the old location in the St. George's Chapel of St. Mary's Church  in Gdańsk) in the German Digital Library
  6. ↑ Michael Antoni, Georg Dehio: Dehio-Handbuch der Kunstdenkmäler West- and East Prussia: the former provinces of West and East Prussia (Deutschordensland Prussen) with Bütower and Lauenburger Land. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1993, ISBN 978-3-422-03025-1 , p. 99
  7. ^ Journal for East Research. J.-G.-Herder-Institut, 1985, vol. 34, p. 168 f.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Bartholomew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and physician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1520
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1571
Place of death Danzig